TLDR Former Moscow investigator Marat Tambiev faces 16-year sentence over 1,032 Bitcoin bribe Russian authorities have begun converting seized cryptocurrency…
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TLDR Texas judge orders Bitcoin investor Frank Ahlgren III to surrender crypto keys to $124M fortune Ahlgren failed to report…
• Tesla directors to return $919M in compensation settlement
• Settlement includes $277M cash, $459M stock options, and forfeiture of $184M future options
• Judge Kathaleen McCormick approved the settlement
• Former MoviePass parent company CEO Farnsworth pleads guilty to fraud
• Farnsworth faces up to 25 years in prison while former MoviePass CEO Lowe faces 5 years
TLDR Cryptocurrency holder lost 22,415 LINK tokens ($525,196) in a cross-chain bridge scam occurring on January 4, 2025 Scammers specifically…
TLDR Do Kwon has been extradited to the US and faces 130-year potential prison sentence Prosecutors allege $40 billion crypto…
TLDR Bitcoin’s rapid decline from $103,679 triggered industry-wide liquidations Over $1 billion wiped in leveraged positions within minutes BlackRock’s IBIT…
TLDR CHILLGUY token hits record high with 50% surge reaching $461M valuation Meme coin based on viral cartoon dog seeing…
TLDR Fresh jury duty scam in Colorado nets scammers $6,000 in Bitcoin Phone spoofing techniques fool victims into believing calls…
TLDR: Meta removed 8,000 “celeb bait” scam ads from Facebook and Instagram Australian scam reports increased by nearly 20% in…
TLDR WazirX hackers have nearly completed laundering $230 million through Tornado Cash Only $6 million remains in the main wallet…
TLDR Two Russian crypto exchanges, PM2BTC and Cryptex, sanctioned by US government Two individuals, Sergey Ivanov and Timur Shakhmametov, also…
TLDR Roman Storm’s motion to dismiss charges related to Tornado Cash was denied Judge Failla stated the allegations against Storm…
TLDR DOJ seized domains of 3 crypto exchanges linked to $800+ million in illicit transactions Two Russian nationals charged for…
TLDR Binance founder CZ to be released early from custody in Long Beach, California CZ served less than 5 months…
TLDR CFTC partnered with federal and private agencies to combat crypto scams Focus is on “pig butchering” scams that cost…
TLDR DC Councilmember Trayon White was arrested and charged with federal bribery on August 19, 2024. White is accused of…