October 18, 2018
Bitcoin trading outfit Gelfman Blueprint Inc. and its CEO Nicholas Gelfman have been ordered to pay nearly $2.5 million in restitution after stealing more than $600,000 from roughly 80 customers, in the first anti-fraud case involving bitcoin brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
September 21, 2017
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued a Brooklyn computer programmer on Thursday in Manhattan federal court for allegedly stealing $600,000 in bitcoin from dozens of investors in his company and claiming that he had been hacked in an effort to cover it up.