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Celsius was one of the top lenders in the crypto ecosystem during the bull market in 2021. At its peak, it served 1.7 million customers and managed $25 billion in assets.All that came crashing down in June 2022 amid major flaws in the company’s working structure.The bear market in 2022,
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Crypto custodian Prime Trust has been ordered by the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, where the company has its headquarters, to be put into receivership after the state ordered the company to cease all activities amid a shortfall in customer funds and accusations that it used customer funds to
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Top Stories This Week Judge rules XRP is not a security in SEC’s case against Ripple Ripple Labs scored a victory in a district court in New York on July 13, with Judge Analisa Torres ruling partially in favor of
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The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Federal Bureau of Investigation have announced fraud charges against the former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, Alex Mashinsky.In a July 13 announcement, the U.S. Justice Department said it had charged Mashinsky with securities fraud, commodities fraud, and
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A former security engineer for an international technology firm has been arrested and charged for allegedly using a smart contract bug to steal $9 million in cryptocurrency from a Solana-based decentralized crypto exchange.On June 11, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams announced the
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The legal team representing the billionaire entrepreneur George Bachiashvili has issued a statement denying the criminal charges filed by the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, alleging that the businessman misappropriated Bitcoin (BTC) worth $39 million. On July 6, the prosecutor’s office charged Bachiashvili with the misappropriation of crypto and money laundering. In
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Michael Ackerman pleaded guilty in 2021 to charges of defrauding around 150 investors for $33 million in a digital asset trading scheme. Source
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SBF will have to issue arguments beyond doubt to the judge and jury why he is not guilty of the charges levied against him. Former FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried alias SBF who squandered over $8.7 billion of customers’ digital assets with risky bets continues to fight for his innocence in a
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A federal judge overseeing the case against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has denied motions from his legal team seeking to dismiss all but three criminal charges against him.In a June 27 filing in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Lewis Kaplan issued
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Bankman-Fried, who faces wire fraud, bank fraud, operating an unlicensed money transmitter, bribery and campaign finance charges, filed to dismiss the bulk of these charges last month across seven pretrial motions. After a court hearing earlier this month, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
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