SEC Awards More Than $16 Million to Two Whistleblowers

SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced awards of more than $16 million to two whistleblowers who provided information and assistance in a successful SEC enforcement action. read more »

High-Ranking Employee At Cryptocurrency Exchange Pleads Guilty To Bank Secrecy Act Violations

DOJ

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GREGORY DWYER, a high-ranking employee of purportedly “off-shore” cryptocurrency derivatives exchange the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange or “BitMEX,” pled guilty today to violating the Bank Secrecy Act (the “BSA”) by willfully failing to establish, implement, and maintain an anti-money laundering (“AML”) program at BitMEX, and aiding and abetting the same.  DWYER pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl. read more »