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A federal judge has approved an order requiring crypto lending firm Voyager Digital and its affiliates to pay $1.65 billion in monetary relief to the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC).In a Nov. 28 filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Gregory Woods ordered
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With the United States lacking an extradition treaty with the UAE, Seattle Judge Richard Jones ordered that CZ must remain with the country for the time being before he determines where the crypto billionaire is a flight risk. Despite pleading guilty to all charges and paying a hefty bond to reassure
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Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who pleaded guilty to one felony charge as part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice involving crypto exchange Binance, may not be permitted to leave the country as he awaits sentencing.According to a Nov. 27 filing in U.S. District Court for the Western
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U.S. prosecutors are trying to prevent Changpeng Zhao from returning to the United Arab Emirates before his sentencing. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has pressed a Seattle federal judge on Nov. 22 to require Binance founder Changpeng Zhao to stay in the U.S. before his sentencing, Reuters has reported, citing a
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The stay has been modified to allow FTX debtors to make "arguments, defenses, counterclaims, setoffs, or otherwise ... with respect to the BlockFi claims in the FTX bankruptcy proceeding," according to a Nov. 13 court order by U.S. bankruptcy judge Michael Kaplan. Original Source
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The approved plan allows Celsius to distribute approximately $2 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) and some shares of the new company to users who were unable to withdraw their funds The Celsius bankruptcy plan has been approved. The path is now clear for customers to see some of
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s testimony concluded on Oct. 31 as prosecutors outlined inconsistencies in his statements and defense lawyers pointed to erroneous management decisions taken by other executives like FTX co-founder Gary Wang and ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison. Prosecutors fielded multiple exhibits detailing Bankman-Fried’s media run in the wake of FTX’s collapse.
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As usual, Judge Kaplan sounded unimpressed by the defense argument, which Bankman-Fried's team had made before (including late Monday night). In short, the defense team has tried to argue that the terms of service are governed by English law, and therefore the jury should be instructed on it. Original Source
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Artists have been dealt a setback in their copyright fight against generative artificial intelligence (AI) firms after a class-action lawsuit against several of the firms was dismissed by a United States judge, citing a lack of evidence.In an Oct. 30 order, California District Court Judge William Orrick said the copyright
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Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has requested a United States district judge to reject the securities and fraud suit from the federal securities regulator, claiming it has failed to prove they did anything wrong.In an Oct. 27 filing to a New York District Court, lawyers for Kwon and Terraform argued
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