- Profile (linked)
- Real [Full] Name (linked, if applicable)
- Company
- Charges
- Territory: Sentence (linked)
Altoid
Ross William Ulbricht / silkroad
Silk Road
Narcotics trafficking, computer hacking, running a criminal enterprise and money laundering.
California: Life in prison.
Yankee (BitInstant)
Charles "Charlie" Shrem IV
BitInstant
Operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, money laundering conspiracy and willfully failing to file suspicious activity reports with banking authorities.
New York: Two years.
BFL_Sonny
Sonny Chris Vleisides
BF Labs (BFL; Butterfly Labs)
Violated the terms of his probation in the lottery scam case.
Kansas/Missouri: Probation extended another two years.
pirateat40
Trendon T. Shavers
Bitcoin Savings and Trust
15 U.S.C. §§ 78j(b) & 78ff
17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5
18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 & 2
Texas: Fined: The Court's judgment permanently enjoins Shavers and BTCST from future violations of Sections 5 and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder; orders them to disgorge, on a joint and several basis, $39,638,569, plus $1,766,098 prejudgment interest thereon, for a total of $40,404,667; and orders Shavers and BTCST each to pay a $150,000 penalty.
burnside
Ethan Burnside
Bitcoin Trading Company (BTC-TC) and Litecoin Global (LTC-Global)
Cease and Desist
Oregon: Fined: $55,000 as a disgorgement of his profits from operating the enterprises
$3,387.07 in prejudgement interest on the balance to be disgorged
$10,000 in a civil penalty
Possibly further interest if payment is not delivered to the Securities and Exchange Commission on the schedule ordered
kslaughter
Ken Slaughter
Virtual Mining Corporation
Violations include, but are not limited to: offering/selling unregistered securities, making untrue statements and omitting to state material facts.
Missouri: Fined: Ordered to pay civil penalties of over $30,000 for multiple violations of Missouri Securities Act.
Pending Litigation:
BFL / BFLabs
BF Labs Inc. (BFL/Butterfly Labs)
Ongoing FTC Investigation and a Class Action Suit
Kansas/Missouri
pirateat40
Trendon T. Shavers
Bitcoin Savings and Trust
One count of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud.
Texas
Micon
Bryan Micon
SealsWithClubs.eu
One count of operating an unlicensed interactive gaming system.
Nevada
BurtW (with apologies)
Burton Wagner
Entity: N/A
Operation of Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business
Colorado
AMT_miners
Joshua Zipkin aka Jewish Bulgarian Freemason Gimp
Advanced Mining Technologies, Inc (AMT)
Class Action due to breach of contract.
Pennsylvania/Bulgaria
Devianttwo
Robert Keith Cristopher, Jr
CryptoRush
23 counts of Transmission of Pornography by Electronic Device or Equipment.
23 counts of Possession of Child Pornography.
Florida
Alex Green aka Ryan Kennedy
MintPal / Moolah
Moopay LTD and ex-CEO Alex Green have been ordered by a UK court to hand over 750 BTC to the team that developed the syscoin cryptocurrency.
UK
Continuing to update the both sections as subsequent posts are offered up.