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The SEC has charged a Florida man and his friend in illegal meme-stock trading scheme
The SEC said in choosing products to trade, the two men charged chose out-of-the-money put options …
Carla Mozée
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The SEC charges 8 social media influencers in a $100 million stock manipulation scheme promoted on Twitter and Discord
The defendants would purchase stocks and tell followers to do the same, but then would dump shares …
Phil Rosen
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The SEC announces it has authorized charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried hours after his arrest in the Bahamas
The SEC made its announcement after Bahamian authorities arrested FTX founder and former CEO Sam Ba…
Huileng Tan
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The SEC announces it has authorized charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried hours after his arrest in the Bahamas
The SEC made its announcement after Bahamian authorities arrested FTX founder and former CEO Sam Ba…
Huileng Tan
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The criminal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried carry big penalties and jail time if proven, legal experts say
Prosecutors filed several counts of wire fraud and conspiracy against the ex-FTX CEO after his arre…
Sindhu Sundar
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SEC charges 16 people for raking in $194 million in illicit proceeds from international penny-stock fraud scheme
Stocks in the "pump and dump" scheme were promoted to unsuspecting investors in the US and elsewher…
Carla Mozée
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SEC charges Hollywood actor with operating a $690 million Ponzi scheme based on fake Netflix deals
The SEC accused actor Zachary Horwitz of a Ponzi scheme where he lied to investors that he had deal…
Emily Graffeo
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Former high-flying VC Michael Rothenberg now faces criminal charges alleging 'multiple schemes to defraud' his investors
Rothenberg was previously fined $31 million and barred from the VC industry for five years. Now fed…
Julie Bort
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Here's why recent moves by the SEC and CFTC may be just the start of crypto's regulatory troubles
High-profile events like the crash of FTX and the implosion of TerraUSD earlier last year have made…
Morgan Chittum
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Elizabeth Holmes plans to accuse a former Theranos executive of 'intimate partner abuse' during her criminal trial, with claims that he threw 'sharp' objects at her and controlled how she ate and dressed
Newly released court documents outline how Holmes plans to direct alleged wrongdoings to Ramesh Bal…
Isabelle Lee
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The cofounders of bankrupt poop-testing startup uBiome have been charged with fraud
The cofounders face criminal and civil charges. They are accused of giving a false impression to in…
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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Crypto exchange Kraken is embroiled in an SEC probe over whether it sold unregistered securities, report says
Regulator SEC is near to wrapping its probe into whether crypto exchange Kraken broke securities ru…
Ryan Hogg
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The SEC doesn't want to let firms and individuals get by without admitting wrongdoing anymore as part of enforcement actions
Wrongdoing admissions will strengthen the deterrent value of enforcement actions, the head of the S…
Carla Mozée
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GOP Rep. George Santos raised money for a company that the SEC called a Ponzi scheme: report
The embattled New York congressman raised money for Harbor City Capitol, which the SEC called a "Po…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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JPMorgan to pay a record $1 billion to settle market-manipulation charges, report says
It would end probes by the Justice Department, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Se…
Ben Winck
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The SEC charged a former Amazon manager and her family with illegally making $1.4 million from insider trading
The SEC alleged the former Amazon employee gave her husband confidential information about Amazon's…
Isabella Jibilian
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SEC reportedly probes due diligence of FTX investors, as role of VC firms and funds prior to crypto exchange's collapse comes under scrutiny
The issue for regulators is whether venture capital firms and investment funds were acting responsi…
Brian Evans
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The SEC files an objection to Binance.US's $1 billion bid to buy Voyager Digital's assets, as the regulator scrutinizes deal for the bankrupt crypto lender
The SEC raised a question about Binance.US's ability to "consummate a transaction of this magnitude…
Carla Mozée
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The biggest DeFi exchange is being investigated by the SEC, report says
"These platforms - whether in the decentralized or centralized finance space - are implicated by th…
Ethan Wu
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One of the world's biggest crypto exchanges agrees to pay $100 million and block US users as part of a legal settlement
BitMEX has neither admitted nor denied the allegations and said that it is "committed to becoming a…