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CFTC charges New York Man for defrauding users, including crypto holders, of over $21 million

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a civil enforcement action against William Koo Ichioka, for defrauding around 100 users, including crypto asset holders, of more than $21 million.  The fraudulent scheme According to the CFTC’s

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CFTC Charges Man With Fraud in ‘Pig Butchering’ Crypto Romance Scam

The action, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleges that Cunwen Zhu, a California businessman, tricked at least 29 customers out of more than $1.3 million allocated for digital asset commodity and forex trading through his company, Justby International Auctions, between April 2021 and

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Judge will consider whether to try Sam Bankman-Fried separately for superseding charges: Report

A United States federal judge is reportedly weighing a proposal to split former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) criminal charges into two trials following a filing from prosecutors. According to a June 15 report from the Wall Street Journal, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York was considering

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U.S. Justice Department Agrees to Try FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Original Charges Only for Now

Those original charges include counts one (conspiracy to commit wire fraud on customers of FTX), two (wire fraud on customers of FTX), three (conspiracy to commit fraud on FTX customers tied to derivatives), five (conspiracy to commit securities fraud against FTX investors), seven (conspiracy to commit wire fraud on lenders

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Sam Bankman-Fried Can Contest Extra U.S. DOJ Charges, Bahamas Supreme Court Says

“Leave is granted to the claimant to commence proceedings for judicial review,” Bahamas Supreme Court Judge Loren Klein said on Tuesday. Klein's comments favor Bankman-Fried's bid to contest the position taken by the Bahamas minister and Attorney General. “All of the grounds advanced by the claimants disclose arguable claims with

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