Attorney General Letitia James sued Coinbase and Gemini over alleged illegal gambling through prediction market platforms in New York.
The FBI said victims are frequently drawn in through promises of guaranteed returns and high-pressure tactics.
SafeMoon CEO Braden Karony was sentenced to 100 months for defrauding investors through crypto fraud, with $7.5M forfeited to victims.
After surging to a nearly $600 million valuation within minutes of its launch, the new coin, dubbed NYC Token, went into free fall.
TIMES SQUARE â Eric Adams launched the âNYC Tokenâ crypto coin at a press conference. Within a half hour, $3 million was unaccounted for.
RONALD SPEKTOR, 23, has been charged with stealing about $15 million by allegedly posing as a representative for Coinbase.
Prince Group founder Chen âVincentâ Zhi was indicted in Brooklyn for running forced-labor crypto scam compounds and laundering $15 billion.
On Monday, in federal court in Brooklyn, Michael Hlady, aka Michael Peters, pleaded guilty before United States Chief District Court Judge Margo K. Brodie to conspiring to extort a startup
A Sheepshead Bay computer programmer and cryptocurrency promoter was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for conspiring to commit fraud. According to officials, 39-year-old Maksim Zaslavskiy and others fraudulently