New York's attorney general announced up to $35m from Celsius's former chief executive and a permanent industry ban. The consent order shows the money falls due only if he fails to pay $10m to federal prosecutors or his prison sentence is cut.
Spanish police arrested a 16-year-old suspected of running the KillSec ransomware group as investigators took its leak site, five servers and at least 110TB of stolen data. Three suspects were arrested and a fourth, the alleged developer, has been identified.
Ting-Wei Sun, the contractor prosecutors call a fixer, has pleaded guilty to four counts in the case over about $2.5bn of Nvidia-powered servers sent to China. Super Micro's co-founder, charged in March, has pleaded not guilty.
American Express's national bank has been fined $350m by the OCC, and the Federal Reserve has ordered the parent to fix its controls. The regulator says about $13bn of suspected trade-based money laundering went unreported over nearly eleven years.
Treasury has issued the first penalty under its programme policing US investment in Chinese AI, chips and quantum computing. The company fined is the parent of Plug and Play, and the deal was a small stake in a Shanghai robotics company that nobody told Washington about.
The CFTC's complaint against Cash FX puts $950 million into a forex pool that promised up to 15 per cent a week from traders, bots and artificial intelligence. Americans put in at least $27 million of it. The loss the Commission alleges is $406 million, and the scheme it describes ended almost three years before the suit.
Prosecutors want to seize $61m from two Binance accounts. The figure they put in the press release, describing the wider network, is twenty-five times larger.
Musk's companies asked a Texas judge to drop Apple from their antitrust case and to keep going against OpenAI. A conspiracy claim missing the party that controls the distribution is a different claim.
A single day of coordinated action restrained more than $52m tied to a scam marketplace, with the stablecoin issuer credited for its assistance. That is a permanent change in what a token is.