Department of Justice News

US authorities confiscated massive drug quantities and dismantled meth labs nationwide while pursuing crypto-linked cartel operatives.

With investigations from two major US agencies now reportedly closed, Polymarket has reached a critical regulatory milestone ahead of its $200 million funding round.

BlockFi’s bankruptcy administrator and the DOJ have settled a $35 million crypto asset transfer lawsuit.

Donald Trump’s crypto agenda claims to champion financial freedom, but the real beneficiaries are political insiders and wealthy elites.

A coalition of major crypto groups is urging a federal court to reject the DOJ’s effort to apply money transmission laws to open-source software.

Justice Department officials did not go into great detail regarding the investment scam, but said that more than 400 suspected victims had lost millions of dollars.

The US Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture complaint to claim over $24 million in cryptocurrency tied to Qakbot malware developer Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov.

Mashinsky pleaded guilty in December 2024 to commodities fraud and manipulating the price of CEL, earning $48 million by selling his holdings before Celsius collapsed.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and US prosecutors alleged Ramil Palafox swindled $200 million from investors and funneled it through a fraudulent crypto trading company.

The US Justice Department under President Donald Trump issued a memo on April 7 suggesting it would halt the prosecution of cases involving crypto enforcement.

Senate Democrats have derided the Justice Department’s decision to nix its crypto unit, claiming the agency is giving a free pass to sanctions evasion and scams.

SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony has argued the US Justice Department’s crypto enforcement pullback should see his case dismissed.

The US Department of Justice has reportedly disbanded the Biden-era National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.

A group of crypto firms claims the Justice Department is creating “confusion and ambiguity” for crypto with its interpretation of money-transmitting laws.

The disagreement over whether the SEC or CFTC should regulate memecoins points to confusion arising from the lack of a clear regulatory framework for digital assets.