New York AG calls for whistleblowers 'deceived or affected' by the crypto mar...
“I encourage workers in crypto companies who may have witnessed misconduct to file a whistleblower complaint,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James. New York Attorney General Letitia James has opened the doors for investors who may have witnessed misconduct at a crypto firm amid the extreme market volatility to file a complaint as a whistleblower.In a Monday notice, James called on New York-based crypto users who have been locked out of accounts at exchanges or lending platforms, unable to access funds, or “deceived about their cryptocurrency investments” to contact the Office of....
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has urged investors in her state who believe they have been deceived by a crypto platform to contact her office. “Investors were promised large returns on cryptocurrencies, but instead lost their hard-earned money,” she stressed.
Letitia James Issues Investor Alert on Cryptocurrency
New York Attorney General Letitia James issued an investor alert on cryptocurrency Monday. “Many high-profile cryptocurrency businesses have frozen customer withdrawals, announced mass layoffs, or filed for bankruptcy, while investors have....
A survey conducted by Xangle Research finds that a third (33%) of respondents say founders of an initial coin offering (ICO) in which they invested either intentionally deceived them or withheld key information. A further 17% of the responding ICO investors say they did not know if they had been deceived. However, about half (50%) of the 600 U.S. investors that took part in the survey replied no when asked the same questions. Divergent Views The survey, which sought to gauge investor sentiment in the aftermath of the 2017 ICO craze, also found that over half of the 33% who said yes think....
With PayPub, perhaps whistleblowers will be a little less reluctant to expose government and corporate abuse. Hesitant whistleblowers sometimes face an difficult decision: expose corruption and risk persecution, or turn a blind eye to abuses and continue a comfortable life. PayPub is an early-stage prototype that would give hesitant leakers an extra incentive to select the former option. That incentive is bitcoin. Developers Amir Taaki and Peter Todd told WIRED they are working on a leaking marketplace. Regardless of your stance on whistleblowing, it is an interesting proposition. The plan....
According to National Security and Human Rights lawyer Jesselyn Radack, a group of her clients is being ostracized from the fiat financial system as a result of blowing the whistle on certain aspects of the US government's drone program. Taking to Twitter to complain, she asked if anyone had any suggestions. .@wikileaks My #drone #whistleblowers went public this wk & now their #CreditCards + #BankAccts are #frozen. Advice? pic.twitter.com/4wymwZgeZ9. - unR̶A̶D̶A̶C̶K̶ted (@JesselynRadack) November 22, 2015. Soon, Bitcoiner Rey Poullard had suggested the new Coinbase debit card -....
OpenSea, a New York-based NFT marketplace that claimed it got hacked over the weekend, publicizes the new number of individuals affected in a so-called “phishing attack.” The company’s tweet specifies 17 individuals fallen to the victim instead of its prior estimate of 32. But the company still has not identified the primary source cause to […]