Former Washington insider and longtime lobbyist Jack Abramoff was charged Thursday for his role in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme, and has already made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty.
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In scenes not witnessed for years in government-controlled parts of Syria, dozens of men and women marched through the streets this week, protesting a sharp increase in prices and collapse of the currency, some even calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad and his ruling Baath party.
Read moreThe SEC claims MMT Distribution and R&D Global defrauded investors of $12 million in a cybercoin scheme operated by codefendants Daniel F. Putnam, 46, of Layton, Utah; Jean Paul Ramirez Rico, 37, of Medellín, Colombia; and Angel A. Rodriguez, 43, of Provo, Utah, in federal court.
Read moreSan Jose-based blockchain services company BitClave will return $25.5 million it raised in an unregistered initial coin offering of digital asset securities, the SEC said Thursday.
Read moreA federal court in Texas found two people involved in an alleged multi-million dollar digital currency investor fraud scheme in contempt of court and ordered them jailed until they comply with the court’s previous orders. The defendants claimed in court documents that the Securities and Exchange Commission is “illegitimate,” and “actively resisted” the commission’s pre-litigation investigation.
Read moreMeta 1 Coin Trust; Robert P. Dunlap, 48; his allegedly “psychic” girlfriend, Nicole Bowdler, 39; and former Washington state Sen. David A. Schmidt, 55, all of Boca Raton, Fla., defrauded investors of $4.4 million in a digital coin fraud, the SEC claims in federal court.
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Investors dissatisfied with the blockchain platform Tezos moved Friday to settle a raft of lawsuits against the company and its co-founders for $25 million.
Read moreSouth Africa’s central bank has warned citizens against scammers visiting homes to “recall” banknotes and coins they said were contaminated with the novel coronavirus.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Sony Interactive Entertainment of targeting children with free games and apps where they can buy game currency with real money, without parental permission.
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The Russian ruble tumbled to a four-year low Monday amid a crash in oil prices as authorities assured the public the country has enough foreign currencies to withstand the blow.
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Britain’s Royal Mint on Monday unveiled a 15.4 lb gold coin with the highest face value in its 1,100-year history in honor of the latest James Bond film.
Read moreActor Steven Seagal will pay $330,000 for failing to disclose payments he received for promoting an investment in an initial coin offering conducted by Bitcoin2Gen, the SEC said Thursday.
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A Berlin court sentenced three men to multi-year jail sentences on Thursday for the spectacular theft of a 220-lb. gold coin from one of the German capital’s museums.
Read moreThe SEC and the CFTC sued Michael W. Ackerman, of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, in separate but similar federal complaints, claiming he ran a $33 million securities fraud in cryptocurrencies.
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It doesn’t take long for anyone who has ever played a free online video game to realize that those games do cost money – sometimes a lot. This is why video game companies eventually came up with the idea to call them “free to play,” denoting that there will at some point come a time when the user is compelled to pull out their credit card.
Read moreA family claims Daniel F. Putnam and Angel A. Rodriguez, both of Utah, took them for $7.3 million in a cryptocurrency scam, through their companies R&D Global LLC dba Bitzolkin dba Eyelinebtc dba Bzlogin dba GMM dba Eyeline Business Development, in federal court.
Read moreThe Trump administration is dropping its designation of China as a currency manipulator in advance of the Wednesday signing of a Phase 1 U.S.-China trade agreement.
Read moreA federal class claims that Ifinex, Tether Holdings, et al. manipulated the price of bitcoins and their derivatives.
Read moreBlockchain of Things will pay $250,000 and must return money to investors who demand it for its nearly $13 million “initial coin offering,” the SEC said.
Read moreFederal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday charging four men whose cryptocurrency mining operation operated as a “high-tech Ponzi scheme” that bilked investors out of $722 million.
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