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Reversals of Fraud Charges Highlight Difficulties in Bringing Market Manipulation Cases

WilmerHale on 8/5/2025

Establishing that criminal defendants engaged in market manipulation is extremely difficult, often due to the difficulty in establishing that the defendant created prices that did not reflect legitimate sources of supply or...more

Digital Assets: An Expanding Arena for Insider Trading and Market Manipulation

Carlton Fields on 3/1/2023

Both the SEC and DOJ are creatively and aggressively attacking the use of digital assets as a medium for insider trading or market manipulation. While the jurisdictional battle over digital assets still rages between the SEC...more

FTX - Billions of Dollars to a Firm with No Controls

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 12/15/2022

Things change, at least sometimes. Take Crypto assets. They began as a way to “get off the grid.” Over time some came on to the grid as their popularity increased. Others stayed off....more

Warning Shot: Charges Against OneCoin Include Securities Fraud

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law on 4/26/2019

In early March, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney unsealed indictments against the leaders of the Bulgarian-based “purported” cryptocurrency “OneCoin” on wire fraud, money laundering and federal securities fraud charges relating to...more

Case Alleging Cryptocurrencies Are Securities Can Proceed to Trial

Jones Day on 9/24/2018

The Situation: Federal prosecutors have asserted that two cryptocurrencies sold in initial coin offerings ("ICOs") are "securities" for purposes of federal securities laws in a criminal indictment alleging fraud against the...more

Significant Judicial And Enforcement Developments In The Cryptocurrency Space

A&O Shearman on 9/18/2018

This past week saw important developments in the cryptocurrency space with two new regulatory actions, and a significant and much-anticipated decision in a criminal securities fraud action relating to an initial coin...more

Criminal And Civil Charges Filed In Connection With Initial Coin Offering By Centra Tech

A&O Shearman on 4/10/2018

On April 2, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced criminal and civil charges against two startup co-founders for allegedly defrauding and conspiring to defraud...more

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