Computer scientist who falsely claimed to be Bitcoin founder avoids jail in UK

6 days, 18 hours ago

Former TV host Carlos Watson gets nearly 10 years in prison in case about failed startup Ozy Media

NEW YORK — Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-'til-you-make-it startup culture. U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee said Monday that the “quantum of dishonesty in this case is exceptional.” “Your internal apparatus for separating truth …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

'Preposterous': Judge refuses to postpone Jan. 6 trials based on Trump pardon promise

Raw Story

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth declined this week to postpone the trials of Richard Slaughter and Caden Paul Gottfried in light of president-elect Donald Trump's vow to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. Gottfried and Slaughter, his stepfather, were observed engaging law enforcement in an area known as "the tunnel" on Jan. 6, 2021. Following the November election, the two men asked …

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1 month ago

FTX's Gary Wang avoids prison after cooperating in crypto fraud case

Salon

Gary Wang, co-founder and chief technology officer of FTX, was sentenced to no time in prison on Wednesday, two years after the cryptocurrency firm collapsed and faced accusations of defrauding customers. Wang testified over several days last year at the trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy and sentenced to 25 years in prison. …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist

Wired

In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an innovative way to circumvent Apple’s location restrictions on AirPod Pro 2s so they could enable the earbuds’ hearing aid feature for their grandmas. In a new legal strategy for those attempting to hold commercial spyware vendors responsible, lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde, …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Crypto hacker who stole $11 billion of bitcoin sentenced to prison

The Independent

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1 month, 1 week ago

Man who stole and laundered roughly $1B in bitcoin is sentenced to 5 years in prison

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison. Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange before he and his wife, Heather …

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Judge delays ruling on whether to scrap Trump’s conviction in hush money case

Associated Press

NEW YORK — A judge has postponed a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction as prosecutors consider how to proceed in light of last week’s election and his lawyers argue for dismissal so he can run the country. Trump lawyer Emil Bove, meanwhile, argued the case must be thrown out altogether “to avoid unconstitutional impediments …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Caroline Ellison begins 2-year sentence for her role in Bankman-Fried's FTX fraud

The Independent

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Crypto platform Binance ordered to release account info linked to €186,000 dating scam

NL Times

The court in The Hague ordered the cryptocurrency platform Binance to release the name and address details of an account holder linked to a dating app scam in which a woman lost 186,000 euros. The court also ordered Binance to keep the account frozen until the woman decided whether or not to take legal steps against the person behind it. …

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Former FTX Lieutenant Nishad Singh Gets Probation in Crypto Fraud Case

Live Mint

Former FTX Lieutenant Nishad Singh avoids prison time in the FTX case. Singh, one of the three top executives who turned on Bankman-Fried, pleaded guilty to a six count indictment, including fraud and campaign finance law violations, in the hope of receiving a lighter punishment. Singh spent a lot of time thinking about what he should have done differently and …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ex-FTX Exec's Cooperation Wins Him a Mercy Sentence

Associated Press

An ex-FTX executive, Nishad Singh, who testified against Sam Bankman-Fried at his trial, was spared a prison sentence by a federal judge. Singh provided information that helped prosecutors learn about crimes they might otherwise have never discovered, including campaign finance violations and private conversations between Bankman-Fried and his associates.

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2 months ago

Sub-postmaster wrongfully jailed in Horizon IT scandal rejects £600k compensation

The Telegraph

The conviction meant Mr Patel, who now works for HM Revenue and Customs, had to sell two of his properties to pay back the debt and a business loan of £180,000. Hope for a new life “Hopefully, we can start a new life again.” Mr Patel said he tried to raise concerns about the financial discrepancies with the Post Office …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Sean 'Diddy' Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight

The Independent

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Vardhman Group chief SP Oswal shares how he was duped and ‘fell into a trap’: Fake SC hearing, surveillance, CBI

Hindustan Times

Vardhman Group chairman SP Oswalwas duped by cyber fraudsters into transferring ₹7 crore to their bank accounts and was also taken into “digital custody” by the fraudsters who posed as CBI officials, he said, adding, that they kept him under “digital surveillance for two days via Skype” as a “suspect in a money-laundering case”. The fraudsters “impersonated Chief Justice of …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Key witness in trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried seeks no prison time at upcoming sentencing

The Independent

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge delays Donald Trump's sentencing in hush money case until after November election

The Hindu

A judge agreed Friday to postpone Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush-money case until after the November election, granting him a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the aftermath of his criminal conviction and the homestretch of his presidential campaign. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is also weighing a defence request to overturn the verdict on immunity grounds, delayed Mr. …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump’s push to move hush money case to federal court fails - again

The Independent

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4 months, 1 week ago

Kim Dotcom loses 12-year fight to halt deportation from New Zealand to face US copyright case

Associated Press

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Kim Dotcom, founder of the once wildly popular file-sharing website Megaupload, lost a 12-year fight this week to halt his deportation from New Zealand to the U.S. on charges of copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. New Zealand’s Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith divulged Friday that he had decided Dotcom should be surrendered to the U.S. to …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Kim Dotcom loses 12-year fight to halt deportation from New Zealand to face US copyright case

The Independent

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4 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s hush money judge rejects his third attempt to kick him off the case

The Independent

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Charges framed against Senthilbalaji, trial set to commence on August 16

The Hindu

Principal Sessions Judge S. Alli on Thursday framed charges against former Minister and jailed DMK MLA V. Senthilbalaji in the alleged money laundering case booked against him by the Directorate of Enforcement. After the framing of charges, the judge ordered that summons be issued to three witnesses and adjourned the case to August 16 for commencement of trial. He was …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Bitcoin scam: Hacker Sriki, associate Robin get bail

The Hindu

First Additional Senior Civil and Judicial Magistrate First Class court in Tumakuru granted conditional bail to hacker Srikrishna Ramesh aka Sriki and his associate Robin Khandelwal on Tuesday in a case registered at New Extension police station in Tumakuru district in 2017. The court granted bail asking the first accused Sriki to pay ₹50,000 in bond with one surety and …

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5 months ago

Crypto Exchange Head Gets No More Jail in $700 Million Scam

Live Mint

-- The Russian founder of the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to the 18 months he’d already served behind bars in the US for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business that masked the proceeds of illegal gambling and drug deals valued at more than $700 million. Anatoly Legkodymov, who had been in federal custody since his January 2023 arrest, was sentenced …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s hush money sentencing delayed to September

The Independent

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5 months, 1 week ago

'So totally unfair': Whining Trump randomly lashes out at hush money trial judge

Raw Story

Donald Trump, former president and convicted felon, randomly lashed out at the judge overseeing his historic criminal hush money trial Wednesday. Trump attacked New York City Justice Juan Merchan one day before the former president was initially scheduled to face sentencing after being convicted on charges he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Bitcoin scam: SIT records statement of convict in Hindalga jail in Belagavi

The Hindu

The Special Investigation Team of the Criminal Investigation Department recorded the statement of a murder convict in Hindalga prison in Belagavi on July 9 in connection with the bitcoin scam. The convict, Nagendra, had written to the SIT chief offering to give statement about the scam as he was present during the occurrence of a crime in Parappana Agrahara jail …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Bitcoin scam: Karnataka HC strikes down use of stringent crime law against hacker Sriki

The Hindu

In a setback to the Special Investigating Team probing the alleged Bitcoin scam, the High Court of Karnataka has declared as illegal the action of invoking the Karnataka Control of Organized Crimes Act, 2000 against the hacker and prime accused Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki in the first case registered in 2017. Pointing out that invoking KCOCA violated a condition prescribed …

Karnataka Court Bitcoin Case Accused Sit Robin

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump trial update: After the Supreme Court immunity decision, Judge Tanya Chutkan has her work cut out for her.

Slate

Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process ahead. She’ll have to go through Smith’s indictment with a fine-tooth comb and apply the Supreme Court’s new standard for presidential immunity, parsing Trump’s actions into “official” and “unofficial” categories while also determining what’s left of the special counsel’s …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Steven Bannon reports to prison for four-month sentence after morning of podcasting

The Independent

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Convict seeks probe against senior Karnataka cop who enabled illegal transfer of bitcoins

The Hindu

A convict at the Hindalga prison in Belagavi has written to the Special Investigation Team probing the Bitcoin scam, requesting it to investigate a senior official for allegedly transferring bitcoins from hacker Srikrishna Ramesh aka Sriki and allegedly collecting gold bars. The letter, written on June 11, accessed by The Hindu, shows that the convict, identified as Nagendra, addressed it …

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6 months ago

Trump ally Steve Bannon asks Supreme Court to delay his prison sentence for contempt

LA Times

Steve Bannon appears in court in New York on Jan. 12, 2023. A federal appeals court panel on Thursday rejected Bannon’s bid to stay out of prison after he was convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from a House committee, and on Friday he appealed to the Supreme Court. Stephen K. Bannon, a longtime ally of former …

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6 months ago

Legal expert flattens Trump team’s latest ploy: 'We just went through a trial about that'

Raw Story

When the Wall Street Journal published a report earlier this month claiming to include conversation with Democrats regarding President Joe Biden's mental decline, the paper faced backlash from The White House, veteran journalists like Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough, and others. During the latest episode of MSNBC's Deadline: White House Monday, host Nicolle Wallace spoke with former FBI counsel and …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Donald Trump’s hush money trial judge flags a Facebook post alleging juror predicted guilty verdict before sentencing

Hindustan Times

Donald Trump’s hush money trial judge, Juan Merchan, informed the prosecutors and the former president’s lawyers on Friday about a fresh discovery of a post that stated that they uncovered a personnel affiliated to the New York court system’s Facebook page, personating as the cousin of a juror. !” Deleted post alleging juror misconduct adds twist to Trump hush money …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump ally Bannon must surrender to prison by July 1, judge says

LA Times

Stephen K. Bannon, in court in New York last year, says he’ll fight orders to begin serving his four-month sentence for defying a House Jan. 6 committee subpoena. Stephen K. Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Trump, must report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump asks judge to lift gag order after conviction in hush money case

Hindustan Times

By Luc Cohen Trump asks judge to lift gag order after conviction in hush money case NEW YORK, - Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the judge who oversaw his criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star to lift a gag order on the case, in which the former U.S. president was convicted last week. …

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7 months ago

How Trump’s lawyers scored a real win against Michael Cohen.

Slate

On Thursday, following Michael Cohen’s second day of cross-examination in the Donald Trump hush money trial, I packed into an elevator exiting the courthouse with a group that included CNN personalities George Conway and Kaitlan Collins. Earlier in the trial, when Trump was coming back into the courtroom after a lunch break, my colleague Susan Matthews had seen Trump goon …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge Engoron under investigation over 'very troubling' talk with lawyer about Trump case

Raw Story

The New York judge who ordered Donald Trump to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in a civil fraud case is now under investigation, according to a report. "A high-profile New York real estate lawyer, whose law license was once suspended, said he approached the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud case to offer unsolicited advice about a law …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Man held for hacking Unocoin crypto exchange’s site in 2017

Hindustan Times

The Special Investigation Team has arrested Srikrishna in connection with the cybercrime involving the hacking of Unocoin cryptocurrency exchange’s website and transfer of cryptocurrencies valued at over ₹1.14 crore. The accused had faced charges in another case related to ordering illegal substances using Bitcoins acquired by hacking government websites Additional director general of police Manish Kharbikar confirmed that Srikrishna was …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump hush money trial: Key takeaways from start of third week of testimony

The Independent

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump could see jail for gag order violations: ‘Fines are not serving as a deterrent’

The Independent

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge fact-checks Trump to his face after rant over gag order

Raw Story

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Donald Trump's judge launched into Friday's hearing by fact-checking the former president's claim that a gag order was stopping him from taking the stand in his own defense. Trump was fined $9,000 earlier this week for violating the order, which forbids him from talking about potential witnesses, jurors, court staff or their families in the case, …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump team hatching 'jailbreak' strategy to keep judge from locking him up: report

Raw Story

Donald Trump's team is scrambling to keep him out of jail if the former president keeps running his mouth about his criminal trial. New York Judge Juan Merchan found the ex-president in contempt of court Tuesday and fined him $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order, and Trump's allies and advisers are hatching a plan to keep him out of …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months for money laundering: Who is ‘bitcoin Jesus’

Hindustan Times

Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison for looking the other way as criminals used the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism. “I deeply regret my failure, and I am sorry.” But the judge said he was troubled by Zhao's decision to ignore …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump slams judge in Truth Social rant hours after being hit by contempt of court ruling

Raw Story

In the wake of Judge Juan Merchan slapping him with a contempt of court ruling, Donald Trump took to Truth Social and slammed the ruling — and the ensuing $9,000 fine — as a ploy to take away his First Amendment right to free speech. Merchan ruled earlier Tuesday that Trump violated a gag order in his New York hush …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Judge slaps Trump with $9K in fines — and warns 'jail may be a necessary punishment'

Raw Story

New York Judge Juan Merchan has ruled in the dispute over whether former President Donald Trump violated the gag order in the Manhattan hush money trial. What's more, as flagged by legal reporter Adam Klasfeld, Merchan warned Trump that he could be incarcerated if he continues to flout his gag order. Merchan said that New York state law does not …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Judge Rules On Trump’s Alleged Gag Order Violations In Hush Money Trial

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan determined Tuesday that Donald Trump violated the terms of a gag order intended to prevent him from lobbing public attacks on people involved in his criminal hush money trial, warning the former president he could face jail time if he continues to ignore the order. Merchan said while the fine …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump held in contempt, fined for violating gag order in hush money trial

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. “This gag order is totally unconstitutional,” Trump said as court adjourned after a day that included testimony from …

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Computer scientist who falsely claimed to be Bitcoin founder avoids jail in UK

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