News list for "US division"
On February 22nd, according to the official website of the Department of Justice, Brazilian man DouverT. Braga was extradited from Switzerland to the United States on suspicion of a $290 million bitcoin Ponzi scheme and appeared in Seattle Federal Court. He was charged with 12 counts of wire fraud and 1 count of conspiracy to commit fraud, which can be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison. TradeCoinClub (TCC) operated by Braga claimed to use advanced algorithms to make profits, but in fact it w...
According to the official website of the Department of Justice, US prosecutors have filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit in a crypto investment fraud case, recovering 7.24 BTC, 14,120 USDT, 105.75 ETH and other crypto assets. Investigations revealed that a Massachusetts resident was lured to join a fake investment group and tricked into transferring funds to a suspicious trading platform. Law enforcement found that at least three victims across the United States sent money to the same platform, and ...
According to foreign media reports, following the U.S. Attorney General's letter to Apple (AAPL. O), Apple will put TikTok back on the U.S. App Store on Thursday. (Jin Ten)
On January 13 local time, David Weiss, the special prosecutor of the Department of Justice in charge of the tax case of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joseph Biden, announced the end of the six-year investigation into Hunter Biden and released the final report. In response to Mr. Weiss's report that President Joseph Biden pardoned Hunter Biden for allegedly breaking the law and that the Hunter case was "politically influenced" and "unjust," Mr. Weiss said "the president's comments were incon...
On January 11 local time, the Department of Justice's special prosecutor in charge of the Trump case, Jack Smith, has officially left the Department of Justice on January 10. Jack Smith was appointed as the special prosecutor in November 2022 to investigate two cases of US President-elect Trump. Court documents show that the Department of Justice is in an ongoing dispute with Trump's defense team over the release of the investigation report on Trump's conduct to prevent the transfer of president...
On January 11, according to an announcement released by the Department of Justice, an Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a cryptocurrency investment fraud conspiracy. According to court documents, Travis Ford, 35, from Glenpool, is the CEO, co-founder, and chief trader of Wolf Capital Crypto Trading LLC (Wolf Capital), a so-called cryptocurrency investment firm. From January 2023 to August 2023, Ford passed through Wol...
Regarding the Department of Justice's approval to sell the seized $6.50 billion Darknet Silk Road bitcoin, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju wrote in X: Last year, based on realized market capitalization, 379 billion dollars entered the market, about 1 billion dollars per day. The US government sold $6.50 billion (bitcoin) could be absorbed within a week. Don't panic.
Perhaps we all have the opportunity to buy bitcoins at a discount, El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, said in a comment on the X platform that "the Department of Justice was allowed to sell $6.50 billion worth of bitcoins related to the Silk Road case".
According to market sources, the Department of Justice was allowed to sell the seized $6.50 billion worth of dark web Silk Road bitcoin.
According to the Department of Justice, Israeli national Rostislav Panev allegedly worked as a developer and coder for the LockBit ransomware group since around January 2022, and received about $230,000 in cryptocurrency transfers as part of his work.
