Tag: SDNY
Ex-SEC chair, now heading SDNY, offers rebuke in $12M crypto fraud case
Jay Clayton, recently appointed interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commi [...]
Donald Trump Names Former SEC Chair Clayton to DOJ Office, the Same Office That Prosecuted Sam Bankman-Fried
In the week since his reelection, the former and now future president has named a number of individuals he intends to nominate to cabinet and other po [...]
U.S. Charges Three in Connection With Evolved Apes NFT Scam
"The defendants ran a scam to drive up the price of digital artwork through false promises about developing a videogame," U.S. Attorney Damian William [...]
Google (GOOG) Takes Legal Action Against Alleged Crypto Scammers for Uploading Fraudulent Apps
Victims were lured to download the apps with promises of high returns from investing in crypto and other products, which the lawsuit described as "ill [...]
Coinbase (COIN) and SEC Dig in With U.S. Judge on Whether Securities Law Applies to Listings
"This is a fairly extreme case of a regulator wanting to have its cake and eat it too," Dave Rodman, founder and managing partner at Rodman Law Group, [...]
Coinbase's SEC Clash Faces First Major Test as Judge Weighs Longshot Dismissal
Coinbase is about to make its case in a federal courtroom that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is wrong about its legal arguments th [...]
FBI Arrests Trio Accused of Bilking U.S. Banks Out of $10M, Converting Funds to Crypto
Each of the accused men has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and faces four criminal charges in U.S. District Court for the Southe [...]
Crypto Trader Avi Eisenberg’s $110M Fraud Trial Delayed Until April 2024
Eisenberg's trial schedule was moving nearly as speedily until late October, when the Bureau of Prisons moved him from a New Jersey federal jail to Br [...]
‘You can commit fraud in shorts and T-shirts in the sun,’ says SDNY attorney on SBF indictment
Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the investigation leading to charges against former FTX CEO Sam Ba [...]
US Authorities Cost Crypto ‘Buying and selling Membership’ Operators With Defrauding 150 Buyers
The U.S. Securities and Trade Fee (SEC), the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee (CFTC) and the united statesAttorney for the Southern Distric [...]
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