US authorities are reportedly disregarding pro-crypto Senator Cynthis Lummis’ deadline to explain what happened to the Bitcoin (BTC) seized from the defunct darknet marketplace Silk Road. According to a new report by Bloomberg, anonymous people familiar with the matter say that the U.S. Marshals Service did not meet the January 31st deadline set by Lummis […]
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After fighting in court since 2015, the former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to commit securities fraud and he was forced to pay $7.4 million in fines. One of Shkreli’s prized possessions, an unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album, was seized by the U.S. Marshals and sold for […]
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) is hiring crypto custody firm Anchorage Digital to handle a trove of seized cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. The USMS is a law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and a key part of the department’s Asset Forfeiture Program. The USMS’s Asset Forfeiture Division seeks […]
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