July 29, 2025
A California federal judge Tuesday sentenced a cryptocurrency company founder who committed a multimillion-dollar fraud in a scheme also involving disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to seven years imprisonment — less than the 17 years prosecutors sought — in light of the man's childhood trauma, mental health and lack of criminal history.
June 24, 2025
A California federal judge Tuesday declined to acquit a cryptocurrency company founder convicted of fraud and money laundering in a case that also involved disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, calling the defendant's assertions that the court wrongly blocked evidence showing Abramoff had conspired against the company "laughable."
March 12, 2025
A California federal jury on Wednesday convicted a cryptocurrency company founder of fraud and money laundering over allegations he stole more than $10 million from tens of thousands of investors in a scheme that involved disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
March 11, 2025
Cryptocurrency company founder Marcus Andrade is a "grifter" who stole millions and left investors empty-handed, a prosecutor told a California federal jury Tuesday during closing arguments while a defense lawyer said his client was a "dreamer" who acted in good faith and was taken advantage of by ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
February 25, 2025
Disgraced lobbyist and government witness Jack Abramoff told jurors Tuesday during his cross-examination at the fraud trial of a cryptocurrency company founder he worked for that the FBI initially approached him in 2018 with questions about his connection to a conservative operative once linked to a Russian agent.
February 24, 2025
Disgraced Washington, D.C., power broker Jack Abramoff told jurors on Monday that he participated in a conspiracy with the founder of an "anti-money laundering" cryptocurrency company accused of bilking investors out of $5 million, testifying remotely due to a recent cancer diagnosis.
February 12, 2025
A former business partner of a Texas man accused of running a $5 million fraud centered on a new "anti-money laundering" cryptocurrency testified tearfully before a California federal jury on Wednesday that her family invested about $425,000 in the defendant's previous cryptocurrency venture and lost every penny.
February 11, 2025
The criminal case against a cryptocurrency company CEO accused of defrauding investors of $5 million is about "greed," a prosecutor told a California federal jury during opening arguments Tuesday while a defense lawyer characterized his client as a "fool" who floundered while "swimming with sharks," including disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
January 08, 2021
Blockchain development company NAC Foundation LLC and its chief executive officer can't shake a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil enforcement action alleging they violated federal laws with a 2017 initial coin offering, a federal judge in California said on Friday.
November 20, 2020
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a California federal judge that its case against a Jack Abramoff-connected company and its CEO that allegedly bilked investors out of $5.6 million for a purportedly improved version of bitcoin should be allowed to go forward because the tokens are a security.