New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured a $50 million settlement from cryptocurrency exchange Gemini for Earn program investors. This settlement ensures that all defrauded investors will fully recover the assets they invested but were unable to withdraw when the program collapsed. Additionally, Gemini is now banned from operating any crypto lending program in…
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Former Celsius Network Alex Mashinsky will now have to defend himself against a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James after a New York County Supreme Court Justice rejected his attempts to have the suit dismissed. The court’s decision blocks the attempt by Mashinsky to stop James from seeking to preclude him from…
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Tether Holdings Ltd. at one point counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin, according to Bloomberg News. Tether at a point in time held securities issued by state-owned Chinese companies including Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., China Construction Bank Corp. and Agricultural Bank of China Ltd, according…
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According to a press release issued on June 15 by the Office of the New York State Attorney General, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinex has reached a settlement with Letitia James, the chief law enforcement officer. The attorney general stated that Coinex will pay $1.7 million in penalties and refunds and is barred from operating its…
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Cryptocurrency firm CoinEx will have to refund thousands of New York investors more than $1.7 million and pay penalties to the state as a result of settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James. CoinEx is also banned from operating in the state, according to a statement on Thursday from James’ office. … Read More: CoinEx…
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A New York lawmaker has introduced a new bill that proposes to allow certain stablecoins to be accepted as payment for bail. A New York lawmaker has introduced a new bill that would see dollar-pegged stablecoins accepted as a legal form of payment for bail bonds. The partisan bill, introduced on May 10 by New…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James proposed legislation that would require refunds of customers and audits of cryptocurrency exchanges in her latest move to rein in the industry. James’ program bill proposes the “strongest and most comprehensive set of regulations on cryptocurrency in the nation,” according to a statement released by her office on Friday. ……
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According to the recent complaint by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Bittrex, the securities regulator insists that a few crypto asset tokens were offered and sold as investment contracts and are securities. The news follows the SEC’s designation of several crypto assets as securities, including the case against Terraform Labs, which insists…
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According to a recent announcement from Binance US, the American-based subsidiary of the largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, the exchange plans to delist the cryptocurrency asset tron. The news follows Binance’s being sued by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and Tron founder Justin Sun’s being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…
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On March 9, 2023, New York attorney general Letitia James announced that her office had once again cracked down on crypto platforms by filing a lawsuit against the Seychelles-based crypto exchange Kucoin. Members of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) were able to purchase crypto assets, despite the exchange not being registered in the…
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