Rodney “Bitcoin Rodney” Burton pleaded guilty in Maryland to an unlicensed money-transmitting conspiracy tied to the $1.8B HyperFund crypto fraud case.
The Second Circuit upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX fraud conviction, 25-year sentence and $11.02B forfeiture, rejecting his unfair-trial claims.
Coinbase froze more than $3M in crypto assets during a DOJ-led operation against Southeast Asia scam networks, as U.S. crypto-fraud losses keep rising.