June 06, 2017
A Connecticut federal judge has ordered two virtual currency-mining companies to cough up nearly $12.4 million after they failed to respond to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil suit alleging that they cheated investors by promising computing power they couldn't deliver.
June 16, 2016
A Cantor Fitzgerald LP vice chairman was a partner in a company that has been accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with running a $19 million virtual currency Ponzi scheme, according to a putative class action suit filed in Connecticut federal court on Wednesday.
January 07, 2016
Two virtual currency-mining companies have missed their deadline to respond to an enforcement suit claiming they defrauded investors out of $19 million by promising computing power they couldn't deliver, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday in Connecticut federal court.
December 01, 2015
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hit a Vermont man and his two companies Tuesday in Connecticut federal court with allegations that he defrauded roughly 10,000 investors who paid $19 million in a virtual currency Ponzi scheme for computing power that largely didn't exist.