DOJ Financial News

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested a US Judge to revoke FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's bond and jail him before his scheduled trial in October. 

On July 26, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan that they "do not intend to proceed" with a campaign finance charge against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. 

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested six to eight weeks to gather evidence for its case against Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius. 

The United States Department of Justice is set to expand its digital asset crime enforcement teams in the coming months as part of wider plans to reduce virtual-asset-related crimes. 

The former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network Ltd., Alex Mashinsky, has been charged with fraud by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and sued by three regulatory agencies over the company's collapse.

Binance's handling of the recent regulatory troubles has led to the departure of some top executives.

The Supreme Court of the Bahamas has granted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried the ability to challenge new charges levied against him by US prosecutors. 

Long-standing crypto skeptic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking US Department of Justice Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate whether Binance lied to Congress.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged a Nevada man for his role in the multi-million-dollar CoinDeal investment scheme.

A former Coinbase product manager was sentenced to two years in prison in a one-of-a-kind insider trading case. 

Binance is under investigation by the US Justice Department over potential breaches of sanctions involving Russia.

The US Justice Department is investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. was illegally used to let Russians skirt US sanctions and move money through the cryptocurrency exchange, according to a report from Bloomberg News.

A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road marketplace in 2012 has been sentenced to a year in prison.

Voyager Digital's bankruptcy plan, creating a new hurdle for the crypto lender's plan to sell its assets and transfer its customers to Binance.US in a deal valued at $1.3 billion. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the Office of the U.S. Trustee, the Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog, filed a notice of appeal late Thursday in U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan. It did not detail why they were appealing. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Wiles, who is overseeing Voyager's Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, had approved Voyager's restructuring plan, which is built around the acquisition by crypto exchange Binance.US, at a hearing on Tuesday after overruling objections from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and DOJ. Voyager, Binance.US and the DOJ did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the appeal.

Shortly after bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital was authorized to sell its assets to crypto exchange Binance.US and transfer its users to the platform, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) made an attempt to block the sale by filing an appeal that could derail it.

According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the American tax authority, Kraken, the giant crypto exchange, failed to provide requested information regarding its US customers who conducted crypto transactions worth $20,000 or more between 2016 and 2020.

A former employee of major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has pleaded guilty to insider trading, marking the first crypto-related insider trading case in the US.

Shares of Silvergate have seen a sharp drop in pre-market trading following the news that US officials have launched a probe into the crypto bank's dealings with fallen crypto giants FTX and Alameda Research. 

Federal authorities have confiscated approximately $700 million worth of assets belonging to the disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, including three accounts at Silvergate Bank that held U.S. dollars.

The US Department of Justice has opposed FTX hiring Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm currently tasked with the exchange's investigation, citing potential conflicts of interest.  

The US Department of Justice has retained control of the contested 56 million shares of Robinhood, a popular financial trading app, worth approximately $500 million.