Posts Tagged ‘Fraud Charges’
BanksterCrime: Citigroup Gets Fined $79 Million Two Years After It Caused a $300 Billion Flash Crash in European Stock Markets By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Two U.K. regulators, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), announced this morning that they have leveled fines totaling $78.5 million against Citigroup’s European trading arm,…
US DOJ Goes After FTX’s Bankman-Fried For Allegedly Leaking Caroline Ellison’s Diary
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-collapsed crypto exchange FTX, of leaking the private diary of Caroline Ellison, a former colleague, and CEO of sister trading firm Alameda Research. The leaked diary was published by the New York Times, shedding light on Ellison’s personal musings…
Ex-Celsius CEO Arrested On Fraud Charges, Bankrupt Crypto Firm Sued By SEC
The U.S. SEC filed a lawsuit against the bankrupt crypto lender on July 13 followed by news reports about the arrest of the former CEO Alex Mashinsky. The SEC alleges that Celsius and Mashinsky “misrepresented Celsius’s central business model and the risks to investors by claiming that Celsius did not make uncollateralized loans, the company…