Prosecution news and trends

Jury Selection Completed in Sam Bankman-Fried Trial

October 04, 2023
First Securities Fraud ICO Case To Plead Guilty
Legal // November 16, 2018

A New York man charged in the first fraud prosecution involving initial coin offerings has pleaded guilty to lying to about 1,000 investors. Maksim Zaslavskiy admitted to participating in what the U.S. regulators called an “old-fashioned fraud dressed in a new-fashioned label” by raising money for...

Quick Reads
First Securities Fraud ICO Case To Plead Guilty

November 16, 2018
A New York man charged in the first fraud prosecution involving initial coin offerings has pleaded guilty to lying to about 1,000 investors. Maksim Zaslavskiy admitted to participating in what the U.S. regulators called an “old-fashioned fraud dressed in a new-fashioned label” by raising money for two ICOs backed by investments in real estate and diamonds […]