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The importance of innovation in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space must be balanced with public safety and financial stability, according to a group of government officials who spoke at the 2023 D.C. Blockchain Summit this week.
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Coinbase chief legal officer: 'After years of asking for reasonable crypto rules, we're disappointed that the SEC is considering courts over constructive dialogue'
Crypto exchange company Coinbase has repeatedly asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for regulatory clarity, but the requests have gone unanswered, and the SEC has now sent the company a "Wells notice" warning of possible enforcement action, said Paul Grewal, Coinbase chief legal counsel.
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Peace: Defendant 'threatened the integrity of our justice system and the safety of government witnesses'
A former paralegal from the U.S. Department of Justice has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for engaging in witness retaliation and obstructing justice-related crimes.
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Cunha: Rhode Island woman sentenced for 'brazenly laying claim to the honor, service and sacrifice of real veterans'
A Rhode Island woman has been sentenced to federal prison for the crimes of falsifying military service, false use of military medals, identify theft and more charges related to the impersonation of military veterans.
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Rollins: Massachusetts man 'trafficked this poison into our neighborhoods in the form of tens of thousands of counterfeit pills'
A Massachusetts man was recently sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for drug offenses.
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Tarasca: 'Illegal distribution of opioids continues to have devastating effects on our community'
A Michigan man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for drug offenses.
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Chinese businessman indicted on charges stemming from $1 billion fraud conspiracy
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced March 15 a 12-count indictment charging Ho Wan Kwok, also known as “Miles Guo,” with wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.
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Driscoll: 'Chiu exploited his access to facilitate a years-long scheme to embezzle'
A former New York-area bank employee is being charged in an almost two-year-long, $2 million fraud and embezzlement scheme.
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Graves: 'We will hold officers who commit civil rights violations accountable'
A Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department sergeant has been indicted with a federal civil rights violation and second-degree murder.
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Greene on the fentanyl crisis: 'Every state is a border state'
Fentanyl, a highly potent and lethal opioid, has infiltrated all corners of the country, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.
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Alaska attorney general on spiraling drug overdose deaths: 'These drugs are traced back to drug cartels operating out of Mexico'
A letter from 21 state attorneys general requests that President Joe Biden list the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG and other similarly situated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorists organizations (FTO’s).
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DeSantis: We need to 'treat (fentanyl dealers) like the murderers that they are'
The alarming spike in fentanyl-related fatalities across the U.S. has been a growing concern for years, and now Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is drawing attention to a particularly chilling aspect of this epidemic: Drug dealers are deliberately targeting children as their clientele, resulting in a tragic increase in the child death toll.
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Las Vegas man gets 33 years in prison for child sexual exploitation crimes
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to 33 years in prison and a lifetime supervised release for child sexual exploitation crimes.
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Ison: Georgia real estate investor ‘orchestrated an elaborate scheme to defraud individual investors’
A real estate investor from Social Circle, Ga., faces 20 years in prison for wire fraud and five years in prison for bankruptcy fraud after pleading guilty to a $3 million wire and bankruptcy fraud scheme.
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Tarasca: Man facing prison for child pornography offense is ‘an extreme danger to our youth’
Sentencing has been set for a former resident of a Detroit, Mich., residential reentry center convicted of his second federal child pornography offense.
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Ennis: Missouri man ‘misused and fabricated Social Security numbers to defraud' benefit programs
A MIssouri man who submitted nearly $980,000 in fraudulent applications to a pandemic relief loan program has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison.
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Grossman: Fraud-scheme mastermind oversaw 'vast network of international swindlers'
A Romanian national and "suspected organized crime figure" has been arrested in California and charged with directing a scheme to steal $5 million in pandemic-relief funds.
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Kavanaugh: 'Individuals who use firearms to harm others will be held accountable'
Two men, one from South Carolina and the other from Virginia, were recently sentenced to 51 months in prison for breaking into a private Albemarle County, Virginia, home in October 2021 while carrying firearms.
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Estrada: 'We are committed to protecting our children' after California man's arrest
A California man has been arrested for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit photos from two individuals he thought were 14-year-old girls.
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Strauber: 'Correction officers faked medical documentation to take sick leave'
Three former New York City correction officers have pleaded guilty to criminal charges for fraudulently taking advantage of employee sick leave programs.
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