Crypto Fraud Jury Convicts Brent Kovar in $24M Scheme
Four hundred investors were sold 15-30% returns and FDIC insurance that never existed. The verdict gives federal prosecutors a clean template for the next AI-mining scheme that walks in the door.
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Four hundred investors were sold 15-30% returns and FDIC insurance that never existed. The verdict gives federal prosecutors a clean template for the next AI-mining scheme that walks in the door.
The Autotrader pitch was the con, and with sentencing set for December 8 at 20 years max per count, the verdict becomes a wire-fraud benchmark for retail crypto-fund allocators.
The case lands before Judge Lewis Kaplan, who sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, signaling federal prosecutors are treating NFT fraud with the same seriousness as the FTX collapse.
Noman Saleem gets over a year in prison and three years of supervised release for running bogus Telegram handles impersonating popular crypto influencers.
Feds allege a Google security engineer exploited internal trending data to net $1.2M across Polymarket positions — the second insider-trading arrest tied to the platform.
Olena Oblamska landed in a Portland federal court after a Thailand extradition; three Russian co-defendants, including the alleged ringleader, remain at large.