U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove sentenced Anurag Pramod Murarka, a 30-year-old Indian national, to 121 months in prison for conspiracy to launder money, according to a Department of Justice announcement. Murarka is a 30-year-old international virtual currency provider operating under two nicknames ("elonmuskwhm" and "la2nyc")...
Judge Ann Marie McKeefe Allen of the US District Court for the District of Utah said the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) had sufficiently charged that Green Boxes combined with escrow agreements constituted securities. The case is different from an investigation into whether digital assets and their transactions meet the investment contract test. Green United LLC failed to persuade a federal court to dismiss a civil fraud lawsuit brought against it by the SEC. The SEC filed a lawsuit in Mar...