The FBI arrested a New York resident for defrauding investors of at least $43 million in a multi-year Ponzi scheme that included a Las Vegas hospitality business and crypto trading operation.
When Is a Ponzi a Ponzi?
U.S. authorities indicted the operators of HyperVerse, allegedly an $1.8 billion “Ponzi scheme.” There’s a fine line between a “fraudulent investment scheme” and many crypto projects, it seems.
Chinese Firms Used Crypto Payments to Run Fentanyl Network, U.S. Claims in Charges
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) targeted several Chinese businesses and their employees Tuesday in the latest round of charges tied to production and trafficking of fentanyl – a network that depended on cryptocurrency payments, according to authorities.
Sam Bankman-Fried Faces New U.S. Indictment Over Chinese Bribery Charge
A superseeding indictment was unveiled on Wednesday.
Forsage founders indicted over $340M DeFi ‘Ponzi scheme’
According to the Department of Justice, Forsage employed smart contracts which were coded in ways consistent with a Ponzi scheme.
Charges laid over alleged ‘crypto mining’ Ponzis that netted $8.4M
Various creators and promotors of two allegedly fraudulent crypto companies are facing a litany of charges that could land them 20 years in jail.