The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ordered an Oregon resident and his entities to pay over $ 209 million in penalties for running Ponzi schemes disguised as crypto and carbon investment programs. This includes restitution, disgorgement of illegal profits, and a civil penalty. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) …
District Judge Analisa Torres has cut the penalty requested by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the case against Ripple Labs over XRP by 94%. The court partially granted the SEC’s motion for remedies against Ripple, imposing a $ 125 million civil penalty. “This is a victory for Ripple, the industry, and …
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s use of in-house proceedings to impose civil penalties for securities fraud violates the Seventh Amendment’s right to a jury trial. The case arose from the SEC’s action against George Jarkesy Jr. and his firm, Patriot28 LLC, for alleged securities fraud. The […]
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) stated on Tuesday that it had appealed the federal court’s decision to relieve Web3 Ventures Pty Ltd., trading as Block Earner, from liability to pay a penalty for offering unlicensed financial services through its crypto-related Earner product. On June 4, the court found Block Earner’s contraventions serious but exempted […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now pursuing a $ 102.6 million penalty from Ripple, a substantial reduction from the nearly $ 2 billion originally sought. Ripple recently proposed a $ 10 million penalty, citing the Terraform Labs settlement as justification. However, the SEC countered that such a low penalty …