Press Releases

Official announcements highlighting recent actions taken by the SEC and other newsworthy information.  To view Press Releases prior to 2012, view the Press Release Archive.

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Date Headline Release No.
SEC Charges 17 Individuals in $300 Million Crypto Asset Ponzi Scheme Targeting the Latino Community 2024-35
SEC Charges TradeStation Crypto for Unregistered Offer and Sale of Crypto Asset Lending Product 2024-16
SEC Charges Founder of American Bitcoin Academy Online Crypto Course with Fraud Targeting Students 2024-13
SEC Charges Founder of $1.7 Billion “HyperFund” Crypto Pyramid Scheme and Top Promoter with Fraud 2024-11
BarnBridge DAO Agrees to Stop Unregistered Offer and Sale of Structured Finance Crypto Product 2023-258
SEC Charges Crypto Company SafeMoon and its Executive Team for Fraud and Unregistered Offering of Crypto Securities 2023-229
SEC Charges Former New Jersey Corrections Officer with Crypto Fraud Scheme Targeting Law Enforcement Personnel 2023-157
Crypto Asset Trading Platform Bittrex and Former CEO to Settle SEC Charges for Operating an Unregistered Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency 2023-150
SEC Charges Hex Founder Richard Heart with Misappropriating Millions of Dollars of Investor Funds from Unregistered Crypto Asset Securities Offerings that Raised more than $1 Billion 2023-143
Former Coinbase Manager and His Brother Agree to Settle Insider Trading Charges Relating to Crypto Asset Securities 2023-98
SEC Charges Crypto Asset Trading Platform Bittrex and its Former CEO for Operating an Unregistered Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency 2023-78
SEC Charges Crypto Trading Platform Beaxy and its Executives for Operating an Unregistered Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency 2023-64
SEC Charges Crypto Entrepreneur Justin Sun and His Companies for Fraud and Other Securities Law Violations 2023-59
SEC Files Emergency Action Against Miami Investment Adviser BKCoin and Principal Kevin Kang for Orchestrating $100 Million Crypto Fraud Scheme 2023-45
SEC Charges Nishad Singh with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX 2023-40
SEC Charges NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce for Unlawfully Touting and Making Misleading Statements about Crypto Security 2023-34
SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Schemes 2023-32
Kraken to Discontinue Unregistered Offer and Sale of Crypto Asset Staking-As-A-Service Program and Pay $30 Million to Settle SEC Charges 2023-25
SEC Charges Avraham Eisenberg with Manipulating Mango Markets’ “Governance Token” to Steal $116 Million of Crypto Assets 2023-13
Nexo Agrees to Pay $45 Million in Penalties and Cease Unregistered Offering of Crypto Asset Lending Product 2023-11
SEC Charges Genesis and Gemini for the Unregistered Offer and Sale of Crypto Asset Securities through the Gemini Earn Lending Program 2023-7
SEC Charges Creator of CoinDeal Crypto Scheme and Seven Others in Connection with $45 Million Fraud 2023-2
SEC Charges Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX 2022-234
SEC Charges Four Individuals in Crypto Pyramid Scheme that Targeted Spanish-Speaking Communities 2022-227
SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX 2022-219
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