Alex Mashinsky, the founder of Celsius Network, was arrested this week on federal securities fraud charges. The crypto lending platform also agreed to pay a $4.7 billion settlement to regulators over its past mistreatment of investors.
Documents obtained by the Financial Times suggest that the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, maintained connections with China, contradicting the company’s previous claims.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today sued Binance Holding Ltd., alleging it violated U.S. rules on futures and derivatives trading — despite the fact that Binance has no formal presence in the U.S.
Sam Bankman-Fried had a “secret” $65 billion backdoor into FTX clients’ funds, attorneys claim, alleging that the disgraced FTX founder and Democrat super donor had ordered a co-founder to insert a secret backdoor into FTX code to funnel clients’ money into his hedge fund. The attorneys claim that SBF “bought planes, houses, threw parties, made political donations,” with client money.
Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX, and Caroline Ellison, former co-CEO of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research, have both pleaded guilty to federal offenses in the Southern District of New York, according to a statement released by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams this week.
Her enormous speaking fees from Citadel raise questions about conflicts of interest.
