Congress has a new petition to review: This one is from a bipartisan group of 18 attorneys general from states that have legalized recreational and medical marijuana and would like access to banking in the industry. According to a TechCrunch report, because marijuana is still...
The head of Europol is calling for tighter controls after the organization found that money laundering goes mostly uninvestigated, despite the fact that it has reached record numbers across the region. Reuters reported news that while European banks flagged almost one million transactions suspected of laundering...
What would happen if Amazon went offline today? Not a service blip, like the June outage that redirected users to 503 error pages featuring cute puppies one morning, but a total takedown of the website, never to be restored? After the initial panic, denial and...
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht lost his bid to get out from a life sentence for operating the underground illegal drug marketplace. According to a report in Wired, a second circuit appellate court on Wednesday (May 31) rejected Ulbricht’s appeal to fight the sentence, which he has...
February 20, 2020
Steve Chen, the mastermind behind a $147 million gemcoin fraud from 2013 to 2015, pleaded guilty of his crimes of tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, reported on Wednesday (Feb. 19). The 62-year-old California resident will face a minimum of a decade in prison, according to the Department of Justice. As part of […]
January 17, 2018
Congress has a new petition to review: This one is from a bipartisan group of 18 attorneys general from states that have legalized recreational and medical marijuana and would like...
September 06, 2017
The head of Europol is calling for tighter controls after the organization found that money laundering goes mostly uninvestigated, despite the fact that it has reached record numbers across the...
June 01, 2017
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht lost his bid to get out from a life sentence for operating the underground illegal drug marketplace. According to a report in Wired, a second circuit appellate...
