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DOJ charges exec over ‘cherry picking’ scheme involving crypto futures

The former CEO of a Miami-based investment firm has pled guilty to a conspiracy to commit commodities fraud involving crypto futures contracts and now faces up to five years in prison. In an Oct. 12 statement, the United States Department of Justice said that Peter Kambolin, the former CEO of Systematic

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CEO admits to manipulating crypto futures in cherry-picking scandal

Former CEO of Systematic Alpha Management LLC Peter Kambolin has pleaded guilty to a “cherry-picking” scheme involving cryptocurrency futures contracts, marking a first-of-its-kind case. In an unprecedented case, Peter Kambolin, ex-CEO of Systematic Alpha Management LLC (SAM), has admitted guilt in a “cherry-picking” scheme involving cryptocurrency futures contracts. This practice, known as

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New book reveals Binance CEO CZ rejected SBF’s $40M request for futures exchange

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao reportedly declined to pay $40 million to former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) for a futures crypto exchange in March 2019, according to an excerpt from Michael Lewis’ book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.According to the book, SBF proposed a

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