Tagged: fbi

September 19, 2018 @ 11:04 am By Cali Haan  |  

A 29-year-old Irish citizen accused of helping run the Dark Net marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Libertas” has pleaded not guilty in a New York courtroom to three charges stemming from the accusation, Irish publication The Times reports. Gary Davis arrived in New York… Read More

August 21, 2018 @ 10:56 am By Cali Haan  |  

A judge’s plan to allow a young man accused of hacking a popular online video game system to post $750 000 bail in cryptocurrency have hit a snag, Market Watch reports. Martin Marsich, 25, was arrested at San Francisco Airport August 8th while reportedly on… Read More

August 19, 2018 @ 10:49 am By Cali Haan  |  

People with loose security online habits who also enjoy an occasional foray onto incriminating websites might want to keep some bitcoin on hand in case exposé hackers come calling. An August 7th public service announcement from the FBI says the agency is seeing an uptick… Read More

August 18, 2018 @ 10:22 am By Cali Haan  |  

A young man accused of hacking popular Bay Area computer gaming company Electronic Arts (EA) has been forced by a California Judge to post $750 00 worth of cryptocurrency as bail. Martin Marsich, 25, was arrested at San Francisco Airport August 8th while en route… Read More

June 29, 2018 @ 2:52 am By Cali Haan  |  

The FBI, that agency with the Ken Doll guys in the suits in all the movies, you should know, is keeping an eye on 130 illegal situations involving cryptocurrencies, Bloomberg reports. “But how big is the problem!?” you ask. Well…OK… it’s basically sliver-sized, says Supervisory… Read More

April 15, 2018 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Renwick Haddow, a UK national, was extradited from Morocco to the US for committing fraud that saw over $36 million stolen from investors. The extradition is just part of a long criminal saga by Haddow. Last year, the SEC joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the… Read More

April 2, 2018 @ 3:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just days after supporters of Andrew McCabe launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe for his legal defense fund, the former FBI deputy director announced the initiative will close at 7 p.m. this evening. As previously reported, the fundraiser raised more than $400,000 less than 24… Read More

March 30, 2018 @ 10:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following his infamous firing earlier this month, supporters of former FBI deputy, Andrew McCabe, have rallied to support him through a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe. The fundraiser, which was labeled the Andrew McCabe Legal Defense Fund, raised more than $400,000 less than 24 hours after its… Read More

March 19, 2018 @ 3:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

HD View 360 Inc (OTC:HDVW), another company that issued a press-release mentioning Blockchain only to see trading in their shares suspended, has been hit with an enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission along with a related criminal prosecution. The SEC first issued an… Read More

November 4, 2017 @ 7:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider reported last month about the RECoin Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that promised tokens backed by real estate that did not really exist. Maksim Zaslavskiy, the alleged mastermind behind a fraud launched from a series of companies including RECoin Group Foundation, DRC World and Diamond… Read More