department of justice Archive

The hire comes after BitMEX’s founders were charged with failing to prevent money laundering and operating an unregistered trading platform illegally in the United States.

The department, along with other international agencies, alleged end-to-end encryption can create “severe risks to public safety.”

The DoJ’s guidance around cryptocurrency enforcement, that cites “crime” and “criminals” 168 times, has been poorly received.

The US government says they have broad extraterritorial jurisdiction over crypto-related businesses.

Regulation and guidance continue to come in hot from the land of the free.

The end of the U.S. federal government’s fiscal year brought a cascade of major announcements from agencies.

Two Chinese crypto exchanges allegedly lost millions of dollars to North Korean hackers.

The U.S. Department of Justice received two more guilty pleas from Romanian nationals involved in a crypto-fuelled transnational cyber fraud ring on June 11.

The fraudulent domain was seized after its owner attempted to sell it to a Homeland Security Department agent

A couple based out of California has pleaded guilty to distributing drugs via a dark-web marketplace in exchange for cryptocurrencies

Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were among the 50 people caught in a federal sweep investigating an alleged elaborate college cheating scam. It’s the …

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly opened a probe into whether Tether, the eponymous issuer of the USD-pegged cryptocurrency stablecoin tether (USDT), has engaged …