An international commodities trading company pled guilty and paid monetary penalties to resolve DOJ charges for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The company had been charged with bribing then-public officials of an Ecuadorian state-owned oil company to secure business advantages and contracts.
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Two Florida resorts agreed to settle with the DOJ for conspiring to fraudulently obtain loan funds provided under the Paycheck Protection Program.
The DOJ announced that a District of Oregon grand jury charged four founders of a decentralized finance cryptocurrency investment platform with wire fraud for having allegedly perpetuated a crypto-related Ponzi and pyramid scheme that raised approximately $340 million from investors.
The DOJ, the SEC and the CFTC charged the Alameda Research CEO and the FTX Chief Technology Officer in schemes to defraud FTX's customers and investors.
The DOJ, the SEC and the CFTC filed actions against FTX and its founder Samuel Bankman-Fried for defrauding U.S.-based and foreign investors, which resulted in billions of dollars in losses and missing customer funds.