Category: plea
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Former Terra CEO Do Kwon Enters Not Guilty Plea In Landmark $40 Billion Crypto Trial
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Do Kwon, a South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur and co-founder of Terraform Labs, on Thursday pleaded not guilty to a series of criminal fraud charges in federal court in Manhattan. This comes just days after his extradition from Montenegro, where he had been detained for more than a year. His case…
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TD Bank nears possible guilty plea in money laundering probe, WSJ reports By Reuters
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(Reuters) – TD Bank is close to potentially pleading guilty to criminal charges that its U.S. retail bank failed to curb money laundering linked to Chinese criminal groups and illicit sales of fentanyl, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Canada’s second-largest bank is in talks with US federal prosecutors…
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Boeing criminal plea deal should be accepted, US DOJ says By Reuters
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By David Shepardson and Jasper Ward The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday that Boeing Co.’s plea deal on a criminal charge related to software linked to two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets should be accepted, after some relatives of the 346 people killed in the crashes argued…
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Plea To Restore Bitcoin Emoji On Musk’s X
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The cryptocurrency community has been abuzz with debate and demands following the recent removal of the Bitcoin hashtag symbol from Elon Musk’s social media platform X. The move, which occurred on the first day of the highly anticipated Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, sparked outcry from industry figures and…
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Plea To Restore Bitcoin Emoji On Musk’s X
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The cryptocurrency community has been abuzz with debate and demands following the recent removal of the Bitcoin hashtag symbol from Elon Musk’s social media platform X. The move, which occurred on the first day of the highly anticipated Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, sparked outcry from industry figures and…
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Boeing to supply E-7 in first major win since plea deal By Reuters
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FAIRFORD, England (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force said it had reached an agreement with Boeing Co to supply E-7 Wedgetail early warning and control aircraft, downplaying concerns that the company’s internal crisis could hurt its ability to supply the Pentagon. The interim deal includes rapid production of prototypes as…
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Boeing in talks with US defense department on impact of guilty plea
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing Co is in talks with the U.S. Defense Department about how the planemaker’s planned guilty plea will affect its wide-ranging government contracts, a person familiar with the matter said. Boeing Co. has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of criminal fraud conspiracy…
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Explainer-How a Boeing plea deal could affect the planemaker By Reuters
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By Chris Prentice and Mike Spector (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will file criminal fraud charges against Boeing Co over two fatal crashes and will require the planemaker to plead guilty or face trial, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. Boeing will have until the end of…
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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Released From UK Jail After US Plea Deal
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Julian Assange, founder of the non-profit media organization and publisher of leaked documents WikiLeaks, has been released from a UK prison after five years behind bars. according to tweet From the official WikiLeaks account, the High Court in London granted bail to Assange. Authorities released him at Stansted Airport on…
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Former FTX Exec Agrees to Transfer $5.9 Million Bahamas Property in Plea Deal
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Ryan Salama, former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, has agreed to transfer his multi-million-dollar holdings in the Bamas as part of a plea agreement in his case. The move comes after Salama pleaded guilty to criminal charges in September 2023, and the plea agreement required him to pay $5.6 million…