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US Department of Justice Takes Action Against $2.3 Million ‘Pig Butchering’ Scam
14.3.2024
The U.S. Department of Justice files a civil forfeiture action to recover $2.3 million in cryptocurrency linked to a widespread romance “pig butchering” scam operation.
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U.S. Attorney’s Office Files Civil Forfeiture Action to Return $2.3M in Crypto Tied to 37 Scam Victims
13.3.2024
The United States Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture action on Wednesday aimed at returning $2.3 million in cryptocurrency to 37 victims of online scams and fraud
U.S. Authorities Seize $54 Million Worth of Crypto from a Drug Ring Leader
3.11.2023
The U.S. Attorney’s Office is aiming to recover $54 million of crypto in Ethereum from Christopher Castelluzzo, a convicted drug distributor. On Nov. 2, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger filed a civil forfeiture action. The goal is to reclaim the seized cryptocurrency. This crypto is linked...
US Government Seizes Trezor Wallet With $6.3 Million in Bitcoin From Gift Card Fraud Case
27.9.2021
On September 22, 2021, a U.S. district judge from San Antonio, Texas, granted a summary judgment on the civil forfeiture of 147 bitcoin worth $6.3 million held on a Trezor hardware wallet. According to the court filing, the crypto assets stemmed from a Target gift card fraud incident that started...
Legalized Theft: Police Seize $87,000 From Former Marine but Don’t Charge Him With a Crime
2.9.2021
A recently published report that went viral across social media details how a former U.S. Marine, Stephen Lara, was pulled over by police and was suspected of being a drug trafficker. Police then searched Lara’s vehicle and subsequently took $87,000 in cash from a bag kept in Lara’s...
DC Magistrate Judge Calls Unhosted Wallet ‘Horror Story’ a ‘Fiction’
14.1.2021
“Indeed, cash poses a greater challenge to law enforcement than cryptocurrency in unhosted wallets," wrote Judge Zia Faruqui in an opinion on a forfeiture case