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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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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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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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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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A Massachusetts man was recently sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for drug offenses.
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A Michigan man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for drug offenses.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Three former New York City correction officers have pleaded guilty to criminal charges for fraudulently taking advantage of employee sick leave programs.