On Friday, November 8, 2024, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced the conviction of Trung Nguyen, a 48-year-old resident of Danvers, for money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. Following a five-day trial, Nguyen was found guilty of conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business and one count of concealment money laundering.
On Thursday, November 14, 2024, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced the indictment of a Chinese chemical company and several of its senior leaders for their alleged roles in the global distribution of fentanyl precursor chemicals. The charges were filed in U.S. federal court on November 7 against Hubei Aoks Bio-Tech Co.
On Thursday, May 16, 2024, a Colorado woman pleaded guilty to her involvement in a complex SIM-swapping scheme that led to over $400 million worth of cryptocurrency being stolen from the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Emily Hernandez, 23, from Colorado Springs entered a plea in federal court in Washington,
On Friday, April 12, 2024, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges and stealing millions of dollars worth of digital currencies.
On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington denied a motion to vacate the sentence for Ronald Craig Ilg.
Ilg had been sentenced in 2021 after pleading guilty to two counts of making threats across state lines.
On Friday, March 8, 2024, American Airlines, Inc. filed a fourth amended complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Anthony Spada II accusing him of fraud and intellectual property infringement.
The airline giant alleged that Spada was running a scam operation where he impersonated major companies like American Airlines online to defraud job seekers.
On Friday, March 1, 2024, the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina upheld a magistrate judge’s decision to detain a man charged with international wire fraud and money laundering.
Chirag Tomar, a citizen of India, was arrested on December 20,
On Thursday, February 29, 2024, Alvin K. Hellerstein, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, held bitcoin scammer Nicholas Truglia in contempt of court. Judge Hellerstein found that Truglia had willfully failed to pay over $20 million in restitution to tech entrepreneur Michael Terpin,
On Monday, February 5, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida granted a final default judgment and permanent injunction in the cryptocurrency fraud case of Blum v. Defendant 1 aka Mia Tara et al.
John Blum had filed a lawsuit against Defendant 1,
On Tuesday, February 27, 2024, the US government filed a civil forfeiture complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking to forfeit approximately 10.6411 bitcoins that authorities allege are linked to a $6.7 million cryptocurrency theft.
The complaint alleges that on May 17,
