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A former OpenSea executive, Nathaniel Chastain, has been arrested and booked on charges of insider trading of NFTs, money laundering and wire fraud. Per the press statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Nathaniel Chastain was arrested officially on Wednesday and charged
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On June 1, United States prosecutors in Manhattan charged Nathaniel Chastain, 31, with insider trading. Chastain was a former product manager at OpenSea, the largest nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace. This will be the first case of its kind regarding digital assets and traditional criminal investigations. Former employee of NFT marketplace charged
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Eddy Alexandre, 50, of Valley Stream, NY, is the CEO of EminiFX, a cryptocurrency and forex trading platform. Authorities say that, beginning last September, Alexandre founded and ran EminiFX and convinced “hundreds of individual investors” to invest with him. Original Source
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2 Europeans Charged With Conspiracy in Virgil Griffith North Korea Crypto Sanctions Case Original Source
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A pair of siblings is now in very hot water with the U.S. government with criminal charges filed against them for allegedly committing fraud in the Ormeus Coin scheme. On Mar. 8, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged siblings John Albert Loar Barksdale and sister JonAtina (Tina) Barksdale with violating
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged cryptocurrency lending platform Blockfi in a first-of-its-kind action. The crypto lender has agreed to pay $100 million to settle the charges and pursue necessary registrations. SEC Charges Crypto Lending Platform Blockfi The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Monday that crypto lending
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New York resident Heather Morgan, 31, claims to be many things: “a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, irreverent comedic rapper, and investor in B2B software companies with high growth potential.”But her LinkedIn bio doesn’t mention anything about her alleged capability to help launder hacked cryptocurrency.Yesterday morning, FBI agents arrested Morgan —
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Jonathan Toebbe, an engineer assigned to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, held an active national security clearance through the U.S. Department of Defense, which afforded him access to sensitive information. The charge alleges the pair violated the Atomic Energy Act. The act prohibits the communication, transmission, or disclosure of restricted
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The $2 billion crypto fraud scheme Bitconnect and its founder have been charged in the U.S. In a parallel enforcement action, a Bitconnect director and top promoter has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the U.S. “The Bitconnect scheme is believed to be the largest cryptocurrency fraud ever charged criminally,”
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A Wisconsin woman has been charged for trying to solicit a murder over the dark web paid for with bitcoin.According to a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday, Kelly Harper, 37, used a dark web site to pay the administrator to have a man tracked down and then killed.
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