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Months later the CEO of BitInstant Charlie Shrem was arrested on charges of money laundering in relation to the controversial dark web service Silk Road, which sold drugs, guns and other illegal items in exchange for bitcoin.
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Mr. Siegal is perhaps best known for his victory in defense of high - profile private equity financier Benjamin Wey against federal criminal and civil securities fraud and money laundering charges.
She was convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering charges — her first offenses — and has been in federal person since 1996.
The Mueller probe has already led to the indictments of several former Trump campaign officials, including onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is charged with engaging in conspiracy and money laundering.
He and Manafort had also been charged in October with 12 counts including conspiracy against the US, conspiracy to launder money, being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal, making false and misleading statements, and failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
Jacob «Kobi» Alexander Former CEO Comverse Technology Charges: In 2007, Alexander was indicted on 35 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and money laundering in connection with backdating stock optionIn 2007, Alexander was indicted on 35 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and money laundering in connection with backdating stock optionin connection with backdating stock options.
Suleiman Kerimov, who faces money - laundering charges in France for allegedly bringing hundreds of millions of euros into the country without reporting the money to tax authorities.
It came crashing down hard on Friday as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to serve the rest of his life in prison, following his earlier conviction on seven charges related to conspiracy, narcotics and money - laundering.
The legal problems began in January when a federal grand jury indicted three company officials and a South Texas mayor on charges of fraud and money laundering.
Also read: Bitcoinist Giveaway: Win a Free Ticket to TNABC 2016 Ulbricht Appeal will Likely be Unsuccessful Sentenced to life in prison in May 2015, Ulbricht was found guilty of narcotics trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking charges.
In the US, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally indicted Vinnik on 21 charges related to money laundering and the operation of an unlicensed money exchange.
In April, the FBI indicted the owners of the three biggest Internet poker companies, charging them with money laundering, fraud, and illegal gambling offenses.
Only Kulikov was charged in the Promsberbank affair, but the names of his partners in the bank read like a who's who of Russian money laundering.
Manafort, 68, and Gates, 45, remain under home confinement on pledges to pay $ 10 million and $ 5 million, respectively, if they fail to return to court after pleading not guilty Oct. 30 to charges of conspiracy, money laundering and making false lobbyist registration statements in connection with their work advising a Russia - friendly political party in Ukraine.
Some of the charges related to his role in running Liberty Reserve and its money laundering — at least $ 6 billion.
However, in January 2014, Charlie Shrem, CEO of BitInstant, was arrested and charged with money laundering related to the Silk Road online black market investigation.
3) Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chair, was indicted in October in Washington, DC on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, false statements, and failure to disclose foreign assets — all related to his work for Ukrainian politicians before he joined the Trump campaign.
In October, Mueller charged Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates with money laundering and failing to properly disclose their lobbying work on behalf of foreign clients.
Special Agent in Charge Lechleitner of HSI Washington had the following to say about the money laundering investigation and indictment:
Art Schlichter, NFL quarterback Has spent four of the past six years in prison on various charges; currently in Marion County Jail, Indianapolis, awaiting trial on federal charges of money laundering.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has finally arraigned immediate past governor of Benue State, Mr Gabriel Suswam, before the Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegations bothering on money laundering and corruption charges.
Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja has turned down ruling in the bail application filed by embattled former chairman of DAAR Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi who is currently facing trial bordering on six count charges of violation of Public Procurement laws and money laundering as slammed on him by the Federal Government.
Fintiri is accused, in the charge marked: FHC / ABJ / CB / CB / 131/2016, of engaging in money laundering activities involving a cumulative sum of over N1billion.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has on Tuesday arraigned a former Director - General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Emeka Mba alongside three others before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 15 - count charge of money laundering and procurement fraud to the tune of N2.8 billion.
Infamous political operative John Haggerty, who stole 750,000 from Mayor Bloomberg and used it to buy a lavish house in Forest Hills was sentenced yesterday to 3 - 4 years of hard time following his conviction on second - degree grand larceny and second - degree money laundering charges.
«The only liberty that Liberty Reserve gave many of its users was the freedom to commit crimes, as it became a popular hub for fraudsters, hackers, and traffickers,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Tuesday in announcing charges against seven people in a $ 6 billion scheme that he billed as possibly the largest money - laundering scheme even seen in the United States.
Haggerty faces up to 44 years in prison if convicted on charges of grand larceny, money laundering and falsifying business records.
Prime minister brings in charge of failing to prevent fraud or money laundering as UK prepares to host anti-corruption summit
Osborne sent a letter in 2012 to Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, in an attempt to help HSBC's leadership avoid criminal charges over the bank's involvement in laundering drug money and in channelling money to countries under economic sanctions.
He said, «We find it demeaning, insulting and outrageous that our senator acted as an escort and body guard to the wife of the Senate President when she was arraigned in court on charges of money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Tuesday presented another witness, Alhaji Suraju Ahmadu, in the ongoing trial of Alhaji Sule Lamido, erstwhile governor of Jigawa State, who is being prosecuted by the Commission on a 27 - count charge bordering on abuse of office and money laundering before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court Maitama, Abuja.
Lamido: EFCC Presents another Witness The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Tuesday presented another witness, Alhaji Suraju Ahmadu, in the ongoing trial of Alhaji Sule Lamido, erstwhile governor of Jigawa State, who is being prosecuted by the Commission on a 27 - count charge bordering on abuse of office and money laundering before Justice Adeniyi Ademola -LSB-...]
The absence of the EFCC prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, on Thursday stalled the trial by a Federal High Court in Lagos of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mohammed Belgore, charged with money laundering.
Filed on Friday at a Federal High Court in Lagos, the charges have to do with stealing, advanced fee fraud and money laundering to the tune of over N46bn.
The former speaker was found guilty of extortion and money laundering, among other charges, and faces up to 20 years in prison.
The Democrat automatically lost his Assembly seat Monday when he was convicted on charges of corruption, extortion, money laundering and collecting nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes.
The statement read in part, «The commission, which preferred 24 charges against the ex-banker before Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, accused him of transferring N78, 521, 431.61 from the Federal Government Pension funds into private accounts held by nonpensioners in contravention of Section 15 (2)(b) of the Money Laundering Act 2011.
The charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering stemmed from schemes by which he obtained nearly $ 4 million in exchange for using his position to help benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.
He was one of the leaders who shut down the Senate for nearly four months when they couldn't pass a budget on time... and cut a deal putting Pedro Espada in charge, who's under investigation for tax fraud and money laundering.»
Dasuki is standing trial on a five count charge bothering on illegal possession of firearms and possession of amounts of local and foreign currency in his residence contrary to Money Laundering Act.
The Federal Government, has charged the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, with nine - count charge of money laundering for stashing over N3billion ($ 9.8 million) at his house in Kaduna.
The government wrapped up nearly three weeks of testimony and evidence in its corruption case against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, resting its case after calling two witnesses who testified in support of the money - laundering charges against the assemblyman.
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, had a case to answer in respect of the money laundering charges involving the sums of N400m and $ 2m instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Alamieyeseigha was detained in London on charges of money laundering while he was Governor in September 2005.
«It will be recalled that following relentless media attack on my person by the EFCC acting in concert with some powerful families with known ties to the government which culminated in the filing of phantom money laundering and corruption charges against me, I made spirited efforts to engage with relevant officials of government including the EFCC, the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and the Presidency to furnish them with all the information in respect of the OPL 245 Settlement Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Malabu Oil & Gas Limited which was brokered by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR.
In a letter filed Wednesday, Silver, who was found guilty last November on charges of fraud, extortion and money laundering related to two bribery schemes, said he apologizes to the court, to the people of New York and his constituents, as well as to his family for his «actions.»
Those were the two narratives presented to jurors today in the Manhattan federal courthouse where Mr. Silver, still an assemblyman and once among the three most powerful men in the state, is standing trial on charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering for allegedly taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.
Silver, 72, a once - beloved Lower Manhattan assemblyman and one of the most powerful men in the state, was convicted by a federal jury in November on charges of money laundering and extortion related to two bribery schemes where he earned millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.
Once of Albany's most powerful politicians, the Lower East Side Democrat became the target of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany's culture of corruption, and was found guilty of charges including honest wire fraud, extortion, and money laundering in 2015.
The disgraced ex-assemblyman was convicted in November of charges of extortion and money laundering related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.