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Binance(币安加密货币交易所), Changpeng Zhao(“CZ”, 币安创始人赵长鹏) 2024.5 ✓Press ✓Judge ✓U.S.,美国
2024.5.16, No, Changpeng Zhao isn’t in prison yet — here’s why. Due to some formalities in the criminal justice system, a world-class team of lawyers, and Fifth Amendment protections of due process, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao isn’t yet in prison despite receiving a four-month sentence.—
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密码保护：郭文贵, HO WAN KWOK, Guo Wengui 2024.4-5 ✓Press ✓Judge ✓U.S.,美国
2024.5.3, 郭文贵的幕僚长(管家)王雁平（Yvette Wang） 周五承认与郭文贵合谋实施一项大规模骗局，诈骗数千名投资者超过 10 亿美元。
45 岁的 Yvette Wang 在曼哈顿联邦法院承认共谋实施电信欺诈和洗钱罪。王雁平 (Yvette Wang) 的认罪是在 53 岁的郭文贵因相关指控在曼哈顿联邦法院受审的几周前做出的。在王女士认罪之前，按计划王将与郭一起接受审判。(Yvette Wang’s plea came weeks before the 53-year-old Guo is set to stand trial in Manhattan federal court for related charges. Wang was scheduled to stand trial with Guo in that case before her plea.)
自 2023 年 3 月和郭被捕以来，王一直被拘留。根据认罪协议，王现在将在 9 月 10 日接受美国地区法官阿娜丽莎·托雷斯 (Analisa Torres) 的判决时面临最高 10 年的监禁。(Wang has been held in custody since she and Guo were arrested in March 2023. Wang now faces up to 10 years in prison when she goes before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres for sentencing on Sept. 10, according to her plea agreement.)
美国检察官达米安·威廉姆斯（Damian Williams）在一份声明中表示：“王给很多人造成了痛苦和损失，她现在要为她和其他人造成的伤害承担责任。”
在周五的听证会上，王承认在2018年至2023年期间，与郭文贵等人合谋，通过郭文贵的GTV媒体集团、喜马拉雅农场联盟和喜马拉雅交易所等实体，欺诈性地诱导受害者汇款。(During Friday’s hearing, Wang pleaded guilty to conspiring with Guo and others to fraudulently induce victims to send money through entities including Guo’s GTV Media Group, Himalaya Farm Alliance and Himalaya Exchange from 2018 to 2023.)
2024.4.3，美國曼哈頓地方法院法官托雷斯(Analisa Torres)2日拒絕郭文貴要求駁回一件起訴案的請求，這項起訴指控他涉嫌詐欺數千名投資者超過10億美元。
托雷斯表示，檢方指控郭文貴涉嫌透過4項詐欺計畫進行敲詐勒索，並且證實這起案件需進行審判。根據起訴書，郭文貴及其同夥詐騙了一家媒體公司、加密貨幣和其他企業的投資者。郭文貴藉由承諾給予巨額回報和其他好處，並利用其網路高影響力和數十萬粉絲獲利。這些計畫實際上使得共謀者為自己和家人謀利，並資助了郭文貴「奢侈的生活方式」。自2023年3月被捕以來，郭文貴一直被關在布魯克林的監獄中，托雷斯和聯邦上訴法院去年拒絕了他提出的2,500萬美元保釋方案。審理郭文貴案件的陪審團將在5月20日開始遴選。檢察官也要求沒收各種資產，包括銀行帳戶、一艘價值3,700萬美元的遊艇、紐澤西州的一座豪宅、一輛布加迪(Bugatti)、一輛藍寶堅尼(Lamborghini)和一輛勞斯萊斯(Rolls Royce)。
此案为“U.S. v Kwok”，美国纽约南区地方法院，编号：23-cr-00118。—
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密码保护：Binance(币安加密货币交易所), Changpeng Zhao(“CZ”, 币安创始人赵长鹏) 2024.4.30 ✓Press ✓Judge ✓U.S.,美国
2024.4.30, 币安亿万富翁创始人赵长鹏周二被判处四个月监禁，此前他承认了在其加密货币交易所进行洗钱的指控。
美国地区法官理查德·琼斯在西雅图联邦法院对赵说：“你拥有必要的资金、财务能力和人力来确保每一项法规都必须得到遵守，所以你没有抓住这个机会。”
这位币安前总裁的刑期明显低于联邦检察官要求他判处的三年刑期。辩方要求五个月的缓刑。量刑指南要求判处 12 至 18 个月监禁。
据报道，赵在周二接受判决前告诉法庭“我在这里失败了，”“我对自己的失败深感遗憾，我很抱歉。”(“I failed here,” Zhao told the court Tuesday. “I deeply regret my failure, and I am sorry.”)
赵周二早些时候在法庭上表示：“我认为承担责任的第一步是充分认识到错误。” “在这里，我未能实施适当的反洗钱计划……我现在意识到这个错误的严重性。”
赵的律师表示，这完全是一个无意识的“错误”，赵对此深感遗憾。他做了很多思考和反思，并致力于慈善事业。(That was all an unwitting “mistake,” according to Zhao’s lawyers, which he regrets deeply. He’s done a lot of thinking and reflecting, he said, and dedicated himself to philanthropy.)
检察官称，赵的违反美国法律的规模“前所未有”，并且“故意无视”币安的法律责任。在 4 月 23 日的一份备忘录中，检察官表示，在赵的控制下，币安以“狂野西部”模式运营。备忘录称：“赵打赌他不会被抓住，而且如果他被抓住，后果也不会像犯罪那么严重。” “但赵被抓了，现在法院将决定赵应该为自己的罪行付出什么代价。”
47岁的赵在听到判决后没有明显反应。(Zhao, 47, did not visibly react upon hearing his sentence.)
他在法庭上穿着海军蓝色西装和领带，他的母亲和其他几名家庭成员出席了法庭。(He wore a navy blue suit and tie in the courtroom, with his mother and several other family members in attendance. )
赵及其法律团队和家人在周二的听证会后离开，没有接受记者采访。赵将报到服刑，具体日期尚未确定。(Zhao, his legal team and family members left after Tuesday’s hearing without speaking to reporters. Zhao will report to serve his sentence at a date yet to be determined.)
对赵的刑期比 Sam Bankman-Fried 在 3 月份因从现已破产的 FTX 交易所的客户那里窃取 80 亿美元而被判处 25 年监禁要轻得多。尽管如此，检察官对币安和赵先生进行了长达数年的调查后的（判决）结果感到高兴。“这是史诗般的一天，”美国检察官泰莎·戈尔曼在法院外对记者说，“在本案中，监禁至关重要，我们对结果感到满意。”(It was also much lighter than the 25 years behind bars that Sam Bankman-Fried received in March for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX exchange. Still, prosecutors cheered the outcome of what had been a years-long investigation into Binance and Zhao. “This was an epic day,” US Attorney Tessa Gorman told reporters outside the courthouse. “Incarceration was critical in this case and we’re pleased with the result.”)
但加密货币怀疑论者往往对整个价值 2 万亿美元的行业持怀疑态度，并表示司法部在打击该行业方面做得还不够。“‘犯罪付出代价’是司法部今天发出的信息”，非营利组织 Better Markets 的首席执行官丹尼斯·凯莱赫 (Dennis Kelleher) 在周二的声明中表示，“它甚至没有指控 CZ 洗钱；他仅被指控没有制定反洗钱计划，这还不如打一巴掌呢。”(But crypto skeptics tend to view the entire $2 trillion industry with suspicion and say the DOJ hasn’t done nearly enough to combat it.“‘Crime pays’ is the message sent today” by the Justice Department, Dennis Kelleher, CEO of the nonprofit Better Markets, said in statement Tuesday. “It didn’t even charge CZ with money laundering; he was only charged with not having an anti-money laundering program. That’s less than a slap on the wrist.”)
尽管赵现在面临牢狱之灾，但接受采访的行业专家和律师表示，他巨大的个人财富将不会受到影响，甚至可能会增加。(Despite Zhao now facing time in prison, industry experts and lawyers who spoke with CNBC say his tremendous personal wealth will remain unaffected and, if anything, is likely to rise.)
无论他的罪行或案件的情况如何，联邦监狱的刑期都不容小觑，这是首席执行官第一次因这种特殊罪行入狱。(No matter the crime or the circumstance of his case, federal prison time is nothing to sniff at, and this is the first time a CEO has gone to prison for this particular crime. )—
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密码保护：Binance(币安加密货币交易所), Changpeng Zhao(“CZ”, 币安创始人赵长鹏) 2024.4 ✓Press ✓Judge ✓U.S.,美国
2024.4.29, CZ 量刑信将币安前首席执行官描绘成出身卑微,忠诚的家庭男人、朋友,对享乐主义冷漠。在周二宣判前，法庭收到了来自他的朋友和亲人的 161 封来信。请求对他明天的判决进行宽大处理。附：来信中赵长鹏现妻和前妻的信（中文原文）
2024.4.25, Friends, Family, Royalty Seek Mercy for Crypto’s Richest Man
2024.4.24, Binance’s founder and former chief executive, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, should spend three years in prison for his role in enabling the crypto exchange to violate federal sanctions and money laundering laws, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday night. The former CEO’s attorneys argued he should serve no jail time, citing the fine he paid and his “extraordinary acceptance of responsibility.”(美国司法部周二晚间表示，币安创始人兼前首席执行官赵长鹏因参与加密货币交易所违反联邦制裁和洗钱法而应入狱三年。这位前首席执行官的律师辩称，他不应该被判入狱，理由是他支付了罚款，而且他“非常愿意承担责任”。赵预计将于 4 月 30 日被判刑。赵长鹏在宣判前道歉。)—
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密码保护：H.E. Justin Sun, 孙宇晨, TRONDAO, Tron, 火币HTX, 加密货币交易所, 虚拟资产 2024.1.16, 4.19 ✓Press ✓Judge ✓U.S.,美国
2024.4.19, 在波场创始人孙宇晨上个月试图驳回诉讼后，美国证券交易委员会重新调整了对 Tron 创始人孙宇晨的诉讼，声称他“广泛前往”美国，从而赋予了该委员会管辖权。该监管机构在 4 月 17 日向曼哈顿联邦法院提交的修改后的起诉书中写道，它对 Sun、Tron 以及他控制的另外两家企业拥有“管辖权”，SEC 称，2017 年至 2019 年间，孙在美国总共呆了 380 多天，出差地点包括纽约市、波士顿和旧金山。
2024.1.16, Justin Sun’s Legal Chess: TRON Foundation Revived Amidst SEC Trial Turmoil. In a recent filing with the Southern District of New York courts, Justin Sun’s legal team has successfully postponed his fraud and market manipulation trial for the third time. Simultaneously, they’ve resurrected the dissolved TRON Foundation based in Singapore.—
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FTX（FTX加密货币交易所）, Sam Bankman-Fried（萨姆·班克曼·弗里德） 2024.3-4 ✓Press ✓Judge ✓U.S.,美国
2024.4.20, A group of FTX investors and customers has agreed to drop their claims against co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried in exchange for his cooperation against other defendants in a sprawling set of lawsuits over the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse.
2024.4.12, Sam Bankman-Fried Appeals 25-Year Jail Term In Crypto Fraud Conviction
2024.3.28, 塞缪尔·班克曼·弗里德 (Samuel Bankman-Fried)，又名 SBF，32 岁，来自加利福尼亚州斯坦福市，今天因策划多项欺诈计划而被判处 25 年监禁，3 年监督释放，并被责令支付 110 亿美元没收金。—
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