Pleads

Arthur Schapak, Paxful co-founder and former CTO, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to willfully fail to establish, develop, implement, and maintain a compliant anti-money laundering program as required by the Bank Secrecy Act.…

Juan Tacurri, 46, of Greenacres, Florida, a top promoter of the Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the Southern District of New York. The scheme, which netted $8.4…

Former BitConnect promoter John Pegaton has pleaded guilty to one felony count of providing unlicensed financial services. Pegaton Back He appeared before the Sydney District Court on May 16, where he admitted providing unlicensed…

BitConnect's national promoter in Australia, John Pygaton, has pleaded guilty to his role in promoting the scam three and a half years after being charged. He promoted the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme on social media, hosted…

In federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday, cryptocurrency personality Thomas John Sferaga, also known as “TJ Stone,” pleaded guilty to... Wire fraud charges Charged with defrauding more than a dozen victims out of more than…

Thomas John Sferraja, known as "TJ Stone," pleaded guilty to fraud charges in federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday. According to the US Department of Justice, he was a traveler Accused By deceiving investors by promising returns of up to…

Alexander Vinnik, co-founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, has admitted to conspiracy to launder money, marking a significant development in a long-running legal saga. Vinik's guilty plea comes in the wake of a…

A prominent British narcotics trafficker involved in the United States Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) largest-ever Bitcoin (BTC) seizure has admitted to operating an extensive network of illicit online marketplaces, as revealed by…

An unidentified decentralized crypto exchange and Nirvana Financial, a decentralized financial yield protocol, were both compromised in a hacking incident, which a software engineer admitted to. A maximum five-year prison term…

A former senior security engineer, Shakeeb Ahmed, pled guilty to the hacking incident on the decentralized finance yield protocol, Nirvana Finance, along with another unnamed decentralized exchange (DEX). Ahmed will also…