| 30 Oct 2026 | DOJ | Two Texas brothers were sentenced to 180 and 186 months for kidnapping a Minnesota family and forcing transfer of $8M in crypto. | Sentence | $8.0m stolen |
| 30 Oct 2026 | DOJ | An Israeli national was extradited and charged with exploiting the Nomad Bridge smart contract to steal about $2.89 million in crypto. | Criminal charge | $2.9m stolen |
| 28 Oct 2026 | DOJ | A Missouri man was sentenced to 48 months in prison for his role in a kidnapping and attempted Bitcoin robbery in Danbury, Connecticut. | Sentence | — |
| 27 Oct 2026 | DOJ | A St. Louis, Missouri man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery in a plot to steal Bitcoin via a home invasion in Connecticut. | Guilty plea | — |
| 23 Oct 2026 | DOJ | A Chinese national was extradited from the Netherlands on charges tied to a Cambodia-based crypto investment scam targeting Americans. | Criminal charge | $36.9m laundering |
| 21 Oct 2026 | DOJ | A Colombia-based crypto broker was sentenced to 160 months for laundering about $14.5 million in Tether drug proceeds and a cocaine import plot. | Sentence | $14.8m forfeiture |
| 19 Oct 2026 | DOJ | An Uzbekistan man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for a fake crypto wallet app used to steal about $11.8 million in EOS. | Guilty plea | $11.8m stolen |
| 19 Oct 2026 | DOJ | A Connecticut man pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and false statements in a crypto investment scam that lost victims $1.16 million. | Guilty plea | $1.2m alleged fraud |
| 07 Oct 2026 | DOJ | A Maryland man was convicted by a jury of computer fraud and money laundering for hacking the Uranium Finance crypto exchange of over $50 million. | Conviction | $53.3m stolen |
| 07 Oct 2026 | DOJ | The creator of the Kishu Inu digital asset was indicted for allegedly running a $9 million rug pull fraud scheme. | Criminal charge | $9.0m alleged fraud |
| 28 Sept 2026 | DOJ | Prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action to recover about $47,000 in USDT allegedly stolen from a Massachusetts victim's Coinbase account. | Seizure or forfeiture | $47,000 forfeiture |
| 28 Sept 2026 | DOJ | A former L.A. County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to 21 months for violating rights on behalf of a crypto businessman and tax fraud. | Sentence | $90,984 restitution |
| 25 Sept 2026 | DOJ | A Vietnamese national was charged with money laundering for allegedly moving crypto proceeds from pig butchering scams. | Criminal charge | $53.3m laundering |
| 21 Sept 2026 | DOJ | An Irvine woman was sentenced to 18 months for failing to report $2.6 million in income from a crypto fraudster's schemes. | Sentence | $2.6m |
| 14 Sept 2026 | DOJ | Prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture complaint against about $61 million in crypto allegedly from sanctioned Iranian oil sales. | Seizure or forfeiture | $61.0m forfeiture |
| 14 Sept 2026 | DOJ | A former L.A. County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to 21 months for civil rights conspiracy and tax fraud while guarding a crypto businessman. | Sentence | $25,000 restitution |
| 09 Sept 2026 | DOJ | DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force seized Telegram channels and wallets of Xinbi Guarantee marketplace and restrained $52 million in crypto. | Seizure or forfeiture | $52.0m laundering |
| 09 Sept 2026 | DOJ | A California man was sentenced to 15 years for his role in a Danbury kidnapping and attempted Bitcoin robbery scheme. | Sentence | — |
| 08 Sept 2026 | DOJ | A Singaporean ringleader pleaded guilty to a RICO conspiracy that used social engineering to steal over $245 million in crypto. | Guilty plea | $245.0m stolen |
| 01 Sept 2026 | DOJ | DOJ seized about $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations intended for Hamas's military wing and disrupted its fundraising websites. | Seizure or forfeiture | $560,000 forfeiture |
| 24 Aug 2026 | DOJ | A San Francisco man was convicted by a jury of wire fraud for defrauding investors in the Block Bits Capital crypto trading fund. | Conviction | $1.0m alleged fraud |
| 24 Aug 2026 | DOJ | A jury convicted a Las Vegas business owner of a $24 million crypto mining Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 400 investors. | Conviction | $24.0m alleged fraud |
| 17 Aug 2026 | DOJ | A Georgia man deported from Fiji faces wire fraud and money laundering charges over an alleged $165 million crypto Ponzi scheme. | Criminal charge | $165.0m alleged fraud |
| 13 Aug 2026 | DOJ | A Washington State man pleaded guilty to hijacking a Niagara Falls bitcoin mining company's computers to divert bitcoin to himself. | Guilty plea | $53,316 stolen |
| 06 Aug 2026 | DOJ | Founder of crypto market maker MyTrade sentenced to a $10,000 fine for conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud via wash trading. | Sentence | $10,000 penalty |
| 04 Aug 2026 | DOJ | Three Missouri men were charged with Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy in an alleged plot to force a Connecticut target to hand over stolen Bitcoin. | Criminal charge | — |
| 31 Jul 2026 | DOJ | Boston federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action to recover about $47,000 in USDT allegedly tied to a tech support scam. | Civil action | $47,000 forfeiture |
| 21 Jul 2026 | DOJ | Prosecutors filed five civil forfeiture complaints seeking more than $25 million in cryptocurrency tied to investment and romance scams. | Seizure or forfeiture | $25.0m forfeiture |
| 16 Jul 2026 | DOJ | A Sioux Falls man was indicted on 29 counts for an alleged $20 million investment fraud involving crypto, laundering, and bank fraud. | Criminal charge | $20.0m alleged fraud |
| 15 Jul 2026 | DOJ | Two Los Angeles residents were indicted for allegedly running a darknet fentanyl and meth vendor and laundering crypto proceeds. | Criminal charge | — |
| 13 Jul 2026 | DOJ | A former LA County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to 18 months for obstructing a probe into a crypto businessman's extortion of a victim. | Sentence | $25,000 stolen |
| 09 Jul 2026 | DOJ | A Bulgarian man serving a federal sentence is charged with moving about $290,000 in forfeited cryptocurrency through exchanges and mixers. | Criminal charge | $290,000 laundering |
| 30 Jun 2026 | DOJ | Goliath Ventures CEO pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in a crypto liquidity pool Ponzi scheme causing $250M+ losses. | Guilty plea | $250.0m alleged fraud |
| 23 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A New York man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for impersonating crypto influencers in a fake crypto staking investment scam. | Sentence | $1.4m alleged fraud |
| 18 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A jury convicted a former South Lake Tahoe man of crypto and investment fraud schemes that cost investors nearly $1 million. | Conviction | $1.0m alleged fraud |
| 18 Jun 2026 | DOJ | Two Texas brothers pleaded guilty to an armed home invasion and kidnapping in Minnesota that forced transfer of over $8 million in crypto. | Guilty plea | $8.0m stolen |
| 17 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A Miami man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business tied to the $1.8 billion HyperFund crypto scheme. | Guilty plea | $1.80bn alleged fraud |
| 12 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A middle Tennessee man was indicted on wire fraud, money laundering and tax charges over an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme. | Criminal charge | $1.9m alleged fraud |
| 11 Jun 2026 | DOJ | Two men in Georgia were arrested and charged with running AudiA6, a crypto laundering service alleged to have laundered over $389 million. | Criminal charge | $389.7m laundering |
| 09 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A Newcastle, Washington man was sentenced to five years for laundering oil-and-gas investment fraud proceeds via bank accounts and crypto. | Sentence | $97.1m laundering |
| 08 Jun 2026 | DOJ | A Missouri man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery in a plot to steal Bitcoin that led to a kidnapping in Danbury. | Guilty plea | — |
| 18 May 2026 | DOJ | An Ohio man was sentenced to nine years in prison for a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that raised over $10 million from investors. | Sentence | $10.0m alleged fraud |
| 11 May 2026 | DOJ | Three Tennessee men indicted for an alleged armed robbery and kidnapping spree targeting cryptocurrency owners in California. | Criminal charge | $6.5m stolen |
| 11 May 2026 | DOJ | A Canadian man and a Miami co-conspirator were indicted in an alleged support-impersonation crypto theft scheme causing $13M+ in losses. | Criminal charge | $13.0m stolen |
| 06 May 2026 | DOJ | A 20-year-old California man was sentenced to 78 months for burglaries and laundering in a $250M+ crypto social engineering theft ring. | Sentence | $250.0m stolen |
| 28 Apr 2026 | DOJ | A French resident was sentenced to eight years for laundering over $470 million in drug proceeds via shell companies and a crypto OTC exchange. | Sentence | $470.0m laundering |
| 17 Apr 2026 | DOJ | A Scottish man pleaded guilty to a phishing and SIM-swap scheme that hacked companies and stole at least $8 million in crypto. | Guilty plea | $8.0m stolen |
| 16 Apr 2026 | DOJ | A Texas man was sentenced to 23 years in prison for a Meta-1 Coin crypto scam that cost nearly 1,000 investors over $20 million. | Sentence | $20.0m alleged fraud |
| 13 Apr 2026 | DOJ | DOJ opened a remission process to compensate OneCoin fraud victims from more than $40 million in forfeited assets. | Other action | $40.0m forfeiture |
| 01 Apr 2026 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Connecticut forfeited about $600,000 in Tether tied to a fake Ledger security letter scam that drained a victim's wallet. | Seizure or forfeiture | $600,000 forfeiture |
| 30 Mar 2026 | DOJ | Ten employees of four crypto market makers were charged with wash trading pump-and-dump schemes; three were extradited from Singapore. | Criminal charge | $1.0m forfeiture |
| 30 Mar 2026 | DOJ | A Maryland man was charged with computer fraud and money laundering over alleged hacks stealing over $50 million from Uranium Finance. | Criminal charge | $53.3m stolen |
| 18 Mar 2026 | DOJ | A Los Angeles rideshare driver was arrested on charges of obtaining over $2 million in fraudulent COVID loans and investing it in crypto. | Criminal charge | $2.0m alleged fraud |
| 16 Mar 2026 | DOJ | A former L.A. County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to 63 months for extorting and falsely arresting rivals of a crypto fraudster. | Sentence | $127,000 restitution |
| 13 Mar 2026 | DOJ | DOJ will return about $470,735 in forfeited Tether to two Maine victims of a cryptocurrency investment scheme. | Other action | $470,735 restitution |
| 10 Mar 2026 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Boston filed a civil forfeiture action to recover about $3.4 million in USDT allegedly tied to an investment scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $3.4m forfeiture |
| 02 Mar 2026 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Boston filed a civil forfeiture action for about $327,829 in USDT allegedly laundered from a romance scam. | Civil action | $327,829 forfeiture |
| 26 Feb 2026 | DOJ | DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force says freezes and seizures of crypto tied to Southeast Asian pig-butchering scams top $580 million. | Seizure or forfeiture | $580.0m forfeiture |
| 24 Feb 2026 | DOJ | Federal agents in North Carolina seized over $61 million in Tether allegedly tied to laundering of pig butchering scam proceeds. | Seizure or forfeiture | $61.0m forfeiture |
| 12 Feb 2026 | DOJ | Praetorian Group International's CEO was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme defrauding 90,000 investors. | Sentence | $201.0m alleged fraud |
| 10 Feb 2026 | DOJ | The CEO of SafeMoon US LLC was sentenced to 100 months in prison and ordered to forfeit about $7.5 million for a crypto fraud scheme. | Sentence | $7.5m forfeiture |
| 09 Feb 2026 | DOJ | A dual national of China and St. Kitts and Nevis was sentenced in absentia to 20 years for laundering crypto scam proceeds from Cambodian scam centers. | Sentence | $73.6m laundering |
| 29 Jan 2026 | DOJ | The government obtained final forfeiture of over $400 million in crypto, real estate and other assets tied to the Helix darknet mixer. | Seizure or forfeiture | $400.0m forfeiture |
| 27 Jan 2026 | DOJ | A Chinese national was sentenced to 46 months for laundering over $36.9 million from victims of a Cambodia-based crypto investment scam. | Sentence | $36.9m laundering |
| 12 Jan 2026 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Boston filed a civil forfeiture action to recover about $200,000 in USDT allegedly tied to a pig-butchering scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $200,000 forfeiture |
| 19 Dec 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture complaint against about $1.2 million in crypto tied to a wrong-number investment scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $1.2m forfeiture |
| 18 Dec 2025 | DOJ | A federal judge ordered forfeiture of over $200,000 in bitcoin and USDT tied to an emergency scam targeting elderly victims. | Seizure or forfeiture | $200,000 forfeiture |
| 18 Dec 2025 | DOJ | Federal agents seized nearly $8.5 million in Tether traced to proceeds of pig butchering cryptocurrency investment scams. | Seizure or forfeiture | $8.5m forfeiture |
| 18 Dec 2025 | DOJ | A senior promoter of the IcomTech crypto Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 71 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution and forfeiture. | Sentence | $1.5m forfeiture |
| 11 Dec 2025 | DOJ | Terraform Labs co-founder sentenced to 15 years for crypto fraud tied to the UST and LUNA collapse causing $40 billion in losses. | Sentence | $40.00bn alleged fraud |
| 08 Dec 2025 | DOJ | A California man pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy for laundering funds in a social engineering scheme that stole $263M in crypto; three more charged. | Guilty plea | $263.0m stolen |
| 05 Dec 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Virginia recovered nearly $1.7M in USDT and BUSD via civil forfeiture for victims of a crypto investment scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | — |
| 24 Nov 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors forfeited stolen cryptocurrency and returned about $84,327 to a Richmond Hill, Georgia theft victim. | Seizure or forfeiture | $84,328 forfeiture |
| 20 Nov 2025 | DOJ | A federal jury convicted a Texas man of mail fraud for a Meta-1 Coin crypto scheme that cost nearly 1,000 investors at least $14 million. | Conviction | $14.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Nov 2025 | DOJ | Two co-founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixer were sentenced to five and four years in prison for laundering over $237 million. | Sentence | $237.8m laundering |
| 19 Nov 2025 | DOJ | A North Texas crypto mining company founder was convicted by a jury of wire fraud and conspiracy in a $4.5 million mining investment scheme. | Conviction | $4.5m alleged fraud |
| 18 Nov 2025 | DOJ | The founder of a Chicago crypto ATM company and the company were indicted in an alleged $10 million money laundering conspiracy. | Criminal charge | $10.0m laundering |
| 18 Nov 2025 | DOJ | A California man pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy for laundering at least $25 million from a social engineering crypto theft ring. | Guilty plea | $25.0m laundering |
| 14 Nov 2025 | DOJ | An Oklahoma crypto trading firm founder was sentenced to five years in prison for a $9.4 million investment fraud conspiracy. | Sentence | $9.4m alleged fraud |
| 13 Nov 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Georgia announced civil forfeiture of about $1.19 million in crypto tied to a real estate agent fraud and laundering network. | Seizure or forfeiture | $1.2m forfeiture |
| 13 Nov 2025 | DOJ | A Detroit man was sentenced to 9 years in prison for concealing Bitcoin donations he intended to provide to ISIS. | Sentence | — |
| 12 Nov 2025 | DOJ | DOJ launched a Scam Center Strike Force targeting Southeast Asian pig-butchering scams, announcing crypto seizures and forfeiture filings. | Seizure or forfeiture | $401.7m forfeiture |
| 03 Nov 2025 | DOJ | A Houston man was sentenced to 51 months in prison for running a fraudulent crypto investment Ponzi scheme through JASTBITME. | Sentence | — |
| 14 Oct 2025 | DOJ | An early bitcoin investor entered a deferred prosecution agreement and paid nearly $50 million over unreported bitcoin gains on expatriation. | Settlement | $50.0m penalty |
| 14 Oct 2025 | DOJ | Chairman of Cambodia's Prince Group indicted for alleged forced-labor crypto scam compounds; $15B in bitcoin targeted for forfeiture. | Criminal charge | $15.00bn forfeiture |
| 30 Sept 2025 | DOJ | A New York man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for impersonating crypto influencers on Telegram in a fake crypto staking investment scam. | Guilty plea | $1.8m alleged fraud |
| 29 Sept 2025 | DOJ | A former LA County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty to conspiring with a crypto businessman to extort a rival and falsely arrest another. | Guilty plea | $127,000 stolen |
| 26 Sept 2025 | DOJ | A UK citizen who ran an online drug market paid in crypto was sentenced to nine years and ordered to forfeit over $28 million in crypto. | Sentence | $28.0m forfeiture |
| 25 Sept 2025 | DOJ | Two Texas brothers charged federally with kidnapping for allegedly holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint and stealing $8M in crypto. | Criminal charge | $8.0m stolen |
| 18 Sept 2025 | DOJ | A Montana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a conspiracy that laundered over $2.4 million in scam proceeds through cryptocurrency. | Sentence | $2.4m laundering |
| 17 Sept 2025 | DOJ | Praetorian Group International's CEO pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering over a $201M bitcoin Ponzi scheme. | Guilty plea | $201.0m alleged fraud |
| 11 Sept 2025 | DOJ | US filed civil forfeiture action for about $584,741 in USDT allegedly owned by an Iranian drone navigation firm founder tied to the IRGC. | Seizure or forfeiture | $584,741 forfeiture |
| 09 Sept 2025 | DOJ | DOJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint against over $5 million in bitcoin allegedly stolen from five victims via SIM swap attacks. | Seizure or forfeiture | $5.0m forfeiture |
| 09 Sept 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture complaint against over $12 million in Tether tied to a fake ShakepayEX crypto investment scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $12.0m forfeiture |
| 08 Sept 2025 | DOJ | A California man was sentenced to 51 months for laundering over $36.9M from victims of a Cambodia-based crypto investment scam. | Sentence | $36.9m laundering |
| 02 Sept 2025 | DOJ | DOJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint against Tether (USDT) allegedly tied to cryptocurrency confidence scams targeting victims in four states. | Seizure or forfeiture | $868,247 forfeiture |
| 29 Aug 2025 | DOJ | Former CEO and CFO of crypto lender Cred LLC were sentenced to 52 and 36 months in prison for wire fraud conspiracy. | Sentence | $140.0m alleged fraud |
| 27 Aug 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Ohio filed a civil forfeiture complaint against about $325,060 in USDT tied to an investment scam on two siblings. | Civil action | $325,060 forfeiture |
| 25 Aug 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Virginia obtained civil forfeiture of about $1.97M in crypto scam proceeds to return to a victim. | Seizure or forfeiture | $2.0m forfeiture |
| 15 Aug 2025 | DOJ | A crypto influencer was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for defrauding cloud providers of $3.5 million in computing to mine crypto. | Sentence | $3.5m stolen |
| 14 Aug 2025 | DOJ | DOJ unsealed warrants seizing over $2.8 million in crypto, cash and a vehicle tied to an alleged Zeppelin ransomware operator. | Seizure or forfeiture | $2.8m forfeiture |
| 06 Aug 2025 | DOJ | Co-founders of Samourai Wallet crypto mixer pleaded guilty to conspiring to run an unlicensed money transmitter moving crime proceeds. | Guilty plea | $237.8m forfeiture |
| 06 Aug 2025 | DOJ | A Tornado Cash co-founder was convicted by a jury of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business moving over $1B. | Conviction | $1.00bn laundering |
| 04 Aug 2025 | DOJ | A Houston man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for running a crypto investment Ponzi scheme through his company JASTBITME. | Guilty plea | — |
| 29 Jul 2025 | DOJ | Founder and CEO of AML Bitcoin sentenced to 84 months in prison for a roughly $10 million crypto investment fraud and money laundering. | Sentence | $10.0m alleged fraud |
| 28 Jul 2025 | DOJ | US filed a civil forfeiture complaint for over $1.7 million in bitcoin seized from a Chaos ransomware group member's address. | Civil action | $1.7m forfeiture |
| 23 Jul 2025 | DOJ | DOJ obtained a restraining order against operators of the fake Triangular crypto platform and filed to forfeit $325,000 in seized crypto. | Seizure or forfeiture | $325,000 forfeiture |
| 22 Jul 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Seattle filed a civil action to forfeit about $7.1 million in crypto tied to an oil storage investment fraud. | Seizure or forfeiture | $7.1m forfeiture |
| 17 Jul 2025 | DOJ | A former semi-pro rugby player was sentenced to 30 months in prison for a fake cryptocurrency mining Ponzi scheme. | Sentence | — |
| 08 Jul 2025 | DOJ | A Detroit man pleaded guilty to concealing Bitcoin donations he intended for ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. | Guilty plea | — |
| 08 Jul 2025 | DOJ | A founder and a promoter of OmegaPro were charged over an alleged $650M forex and crypto investment scheme paid in virtual currency. | Criminal charge | $650.0m alleged fraud |
| 02 Jul 2025 | DOJ | DOJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to recover $40,300 in USDT stolen by scammers impersonating the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee. | Seizure or forfeiture | $40,300 forfeiture |
| 30 Jun 2025 | DOJ | Four North Korean nationals charged with posing as remote IT workers to steal and launder over $900,000 in virtual currency. | Criminal charge | $900,000 stolen |
| 27 Jun 2025 | DOJ | A co-owner of virtual currency companies was sentenced to 97 months in prison for running crypto Ponzi schemes that raised over $40 million. | Sentence | $40.0m alleged fraud |
| 18 Jun 2025 | DOJ | DOJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint against over $225.3 million in crypto tied to laundering of crypto confidence scam proceeds. | Seizure or forfeiture | $225.3m forfeiture |
| 13 Jun 2025 | DOJ | Crypto market maker Gotbit and its founder were sentenced for wash trading; founder gets 8 months and the firm forfeits about $23 million. | Sentence | $23.0m forfeiture |
| 12 Jun 2025 | DOJ | DOJ used civil forfeiture to recover over $680,000 in crypto stolen from SafeMoon via an exploit and front-running bot, returning it to the victim. | Seizure or forfeiture | $680,468 forfeiture |
| 09 Jun 2025 | DOJ | A Russian national in New York was charged with using his crypto payment company Evita to move about $530 million for sanctioned Russian banks. | Criminal charge | $530.0m laundering |
| 09 Jun 2025 | DOJ | Five men pleaded guilty to laundering over $36.9 million from victims of a Cambodia-based digital asset investment scam. | Guilty plea | $36.9m laundering |
| 03 Jun 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture complaint against about $680,000 in USDT tied to an alleged crypto investment scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $679,981 forfeiture |
| 23 May 2025 | DOJ | The US seized over $868,247 in cryptocurrency alleged to be proceeds of a cryptocurrency confidence investment scheme. | Seizure or forfeiture | $868,247 forfeiture |
| 23 May 2025 | DOJ | A federal judge ordered forfeiture of about $2.5 million in cryptocurrency tied to confidence scams, to be used to compensate victims. | Seizure or forfeiture | $2.5m forfeiture |
| 21 May 2025 | DOJ | A jury convicted the CEO of SafeMoon LLC of securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy for diverting liquidity pool funds. | Conviction | $9.0m alleged fraud |
| 16 May 2025 | DOJ | An Alabama man was sentenced to 14 months in prison for a SIM swap that enabled a hack of the SEC's X account with a false Bitcoin ETF post. | Sentence | — |
| 16 May 2025 | DOJ | An Alabama man was sentenced to 14 months for a SIM swap that hijacked the SEC's X account to post a fake Bitcoin ETF approval. | Sentence | $50,000 forfeiture |
| 15 May 2025 | DOJ | A superseding indictment charges 12 more people in an alleged RICO conspiracy behind over $263 million in crypto thefts and laundering. | Criminal charge | $263.0m stolen |
| 08 May 2025 | DOJ | A Springfield, Virginia man was sentenced to 364 months for sending over $185,000 in cryptocurrency to support ISIS. | Sentence | $185,000 laundering |
| 08 May 2025 | DOJ | Celsius Network founder and former CEO sentenced to 12 years in prison for commodities and securities fraud and CEL token manipulation. | Sentence | $48.4m forfeiture |
| 23 Apr 2025 | DOJ | A Long Island man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for a crypto investment and loan fraud scheme that cost victims over $12 million. | Sentence | $12.7m restitution |
| 08 Apr 2025 | DOJ | Secret Service seized a second web domain, NFT-UNI.com, used in a crypto pig butchering scheme that defrauded a Warren County victim. | Seizure or forfeiture | $4.6m alleged fraud |
| 02 Apr 2025 | DOJ | Crypto market maker CLS Global sentenced to pay $428,059 and three years' probation for wash trading the NexFundAI token. | Sentence | $428,059 penalty |
| 02 Apr 2025 | DOJ | A Minnesota man pleaded guilty to computer fraud for using his former employer's AWS account to mine Ethereum, causing over $45,000 in costs. | Guilty plea | $45,000 stolen |
| 27 Mar 2025 | DOJ | DOJ seized about $201,400 in cryptocurrency from wallets and accounts allegedly used to fund and launder money for Hamas. | Seizure or forfeiture | $201,400 forfeiture |
| 27 Mar 2025 | DOJ | US filed civil forfeiture action to recover about $23 million in stablecoins seized from market maker Gotbit after its guilty plea. | Seizure or forfeiture | $23.0m forfeiture |
| 21 Mar 2025 | DOJ | Crypto market maker Gotbit and its founder pleaded guilty to wash trading fraud; the firm agreed to forfeit about $23 million in crypto. | Guilty plea | $23.0m forfeiture |
| 14 Mar 2025 | DOJ | A Brooklyn podcaster and crypto event emcee was sentenced to 45 months for wire fraud over sham real estate and crypto investments. | Sentence | $1.3m forfeiture |
| 13 Mar 2025 | DOJ | A San Francisco man was sentenced to 87 months for laundering darknet drug sale proceeds through cryptocurrency. | Sentence | — |
| 12 Mar 2025 | DOJ | A Texas cryptocurrency founder was convicted by a jury of wire fraud and money laundering over the marketing and sale of AML Bitcoin. | Conviction | $2.0m alleged fraud |
| 10 Mar 2025 | DOJ | Two Tulsa men were sentenced for running a dark web pharmacy selling misbranded drugs from China for cryptocurrency. | Sentence | — |
| 07 Mar 2025 | DOJ | DOJ and partners took down Garantex exchange infrastructure, seized domains, froze $26M, and unsealed charges against two operators. | Seizure or forfeiture | $96.00bn laundering |
| 07 Mar 2025 | DOJ | DOJ took down Garantex exchange domains, froze over $26M, and unsealed charges against two operators for alleged laundering and sanctions evasion. | Criminal charge | $96.00bn laundering |
| 04 Mar 2025 | DOJ | An Irvine woman agreed to plead guilty to filing a false tax return, failing to report over $2.6 million tied to a fraudster's crimes. | Criminal charge | $2.6m |
| 28 Feb 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture complaint against about $8.2 million in USDT tied to a crypto investment trust scam. | Civil action | $8.2m forfeiture |
| 27 Feb 2025 | DOJ | A Montana man was convicted by a jury of laundering over $2.4 million in scam proceeds through cryptocurrency. | Conviction | $2.4m laundering |
| 26 Feb 2025 | DOJ | The founder of crypto market maker Gotbit was extradited from Portugal to face charges of wash-trading market manipulation and wire fraud. | Criminal charge | — |
| 21 Feb 2025 | DOJ | A Brazilian man was extradited from Switzerland to face charges over an alleged $290M+ bitcoin Ponzi scheme run through Trade Coin Club. | Criminal charge | $290.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Feb 2025 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Boston filed a civil forfeiture action to recover over $1 million in crypto allegedly from a pig-butchering scheme. | Seizure or forfeiture | $1.0m forfeiture |
| 14 Feb 2025 | DOJ | A Las Vegas business owner is charged with running an alleged $24 million crypto mining Ponzi scheme through Profit Connect. | Criminal charge | $24.0m alleged fraud |
| 13 Feb 2025 | DOJ | Two Estonian nationals pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy over the HashFlare crypto mining Ponzi scheme with $577M in sales. | Guilty plea | $577.0m alleged fraud |
| 10 Feb 2025 | DOJ | An Alabama man pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a SIM swap hack of the SEC's X account that posted a fake Bitcoin ETF approval. | Guilty plea | $50,000 |
| 07 Feb 2025 | DOJ | An Indiana man was sentenced to 20 years for a cyber intrusion that stole $37 million in crypto from nearly 600 investment firm clients. | Sentence | $37.0m stolen |
| 03 Feb 2025 | DOJ | Two Chinese chemical company executives were convicted of fentanyl precursor importation and money laundering; $900,000 in crypto seized. | Conviction | $900,000 forfeiture |
| 03 Feb 2025 | DOJ | A Canadian man was charged with exploiting KyberSwap and Indexed Finance DeFi protocols to allegedly obtain about $65 million. | Criminal charge | $65.0m stolen |
| 27 Jan 2025 | DOJ | KuCoin operator Peken Global pled guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and agreed to pay over $297 million. | Guilty plea | $297.0m penalty |
| 21 Jan 2025 | DOJ | CLS Global agreed to plead guilty to crypto wash trading charges, pay $428,059, and exit U.S. crypto markets. | Guilty plea | $428,059 penalty |
| 17 Jan 2025 | DOJ | A self-styled crypto 'Godfather' and an LASD deputy agreed to plead guilty to civil rights conspiracy, fraud and tax crimes. | Guilty plea | $37.0m stolen |
| 17 Jan 2025 | DOJ | An Indian national who ran a crypto-to-cash laundering service on dark net markets was sentenced to 121 months in prison. | Sentence | $20.0m laundering |
| 15 Jan 2025 | DOJ | Crypto exchange BitMEX was sentenced to a $100 million fine and two years' probation for willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act. | Sentence | $100.0m penalty |
| 10 Jan 2025 | DOJ | Three Russian nationals were charged with money laundering for allegedly operating the crypto mixers Blender.io and Sinbad.io. | Criminal charge | — |
| 10 Jan 2025 | DOJ | An Oklahoma man who led Wolf Capital pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in a $9.4M crypto investment scheme. | Guilty plea | $9.4m alleged fraud |
| 09 Jan 2025 | DOJ | A former Washington pastor was indicted on 26 fraud counts for an alleged multi-million dollar crypto staking scheme called Solano Fi. | Criminal charge | — |
| 20 Dec 2024 | DOJ | Two Southern California men were indicted for allegedly running NFT rugpull schemes that defrauded investors of over $22 million. | Criminal charge | $22.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A former South Lake Tahoe man was indicted on 12 counts of wire fraud in an alleged cryptocurrency investment scam. | Criminal charge | — |
| 17 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A former crypto research firm finance executive was sentenced to 48 months for stealing about $4.46 million from his employer. | Sentence | $4.5m stolen |
| 16 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A federal jury convicted a Springfield, Virginia man of sending over $185,000 in cryptocurrency to support ISIS. | Conviction | $185,000 laundering |
| 16 Dec 2024 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Seattle forfeited about 32.68 Bitcoin tied to a business email compromise scheme, aiming to repay victims. | Seizure or forfeiture | $900,000 forfeiture |
| 13 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A former Secret Service agent pleaded guilty to stealing about $56,000 in cryptocurrency from an agency evidence vault. | Guilty plea | $56,000 stolen |
| 12 Dec 2024 | DOJ | An Austin, Texas man was sentenced to two years in prison for filing false tax returns underreporting bitcoin gains. | Sentence | $1.1m restitution |
| 12 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A Houston couple was sentenced to prison for running an unlicensed money transmitting business that laundered drug proceeds via virtual currency. | Sentence | $33.0m laundering |
| 11 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A former Spokane man was sentenced to 41 months in prison for a fake cryptocurrency investment fund scheme that defrauded investors. | Sentence | $350,000 alleged fraud |
| 05 Dec 2024 | DOJ | A Nebraska man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded cloud providers of over $3.5 million in computing resources. | Guilty plea | $3.5m stolen |
| 03 Dec 2024 | DOJ | Two men were sentenced to 10 and 8 years in prison for their roles in the IcomTech cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. | Sentence | $40,000 forfeiture |
| 03 Dec 2024 | DOJ | Celsius founder and former CEO pleaded guilty to commodities and securities fraud, agreeing to forfeit over $48 million. | Guilty plea | $48.0m forfeiture |
| 25 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A Massachusetts man was convicted at trial of money laundering and running an unlicensed business converting cash to Bitcoin. | Conviction | $25,000 laundering |
| 20 Nov 2024 | DOJ | Nine people were charged with laundering drug cash into cryptocurrency for Mexican and Colombian cartels and running unlicensed money transmission. | Criminal charge | — |
| 15 Nov 2024 | DOJ | An Ohio man who operated the Helix darknet bitcoin mixer was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to forfeit over $400M. | Sentence | $311.1m laundering |
| 14 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A hacker was sentenced to five years in prison for laundering about 120,000 bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. | Sentence | — |
| 12 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A foreign national pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder at least $73.6 million from crypto investment scam victims via shell companies and USDT. | Guilty plea | $73.6m laundering |
| 08 Nov 2024 | DOJ | The operator of the Bitcoin Fog darknet mixer was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for laundering about $400 million in bitcoin. | Sentence | $395.6m forfeiture |
| 04 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A northern Minnesota man was indicted for allegedly using his former employer's AWS account to mine Ethereum in a cryptojacking scheme. | Criminal charge | $45,000 stolen |
| 04 Nov 2024 | DOJ | A judge ordered over $8 million in seized funds distributed as restitution to investors after a former bank CEO's crypto embezzlement. | Other action | $8.0m restitution |
| 31 Oct 2024 | DOJ | Founder of crypto market maker Gotbit indicted in superseding indictment for alleged wash trading and wire fraud conspiracy. | Criminal charge | — |
| 31 Oct 2024 | DOJ | A federal jury convicted an Alabama NFT developer of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in a Solana NFT rug pull. | Conviction | $400,000 alleged fraud |
| 30 Oct 2024 | DOJ | Founder of crypto market maker MyTrade pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud via wash trading bots. | Guilty plea | — |
| 28 Oct 2024 | DOJ | An Indiana man was charged in a superseding indictment with money laundering and tax crimes tied to running unlicensed exchange AurumXchange. | Criminal charge | $30.0m laundering |
| 17 Oct 2024 | DOJ | An Alabama man was arrested and charged over a SIM swap that hijacked the SEC's X account to post a fake bitcoin ETF approval. | Criminal charge | — |
| 17 Oct 2024 | DOJ | An Indian national was sentenced to 60 months in prison for stealing over $20 million in crypto via fake Coinbase websites. | Sentence | $20.0m stolen |
| 16 Oct 2024 | DOJ | A senior promoter of the Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 240 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million. | Sentence | $3.6m forfeiture |
| 09 Oct 2024 | DOJ | Eighteen individuals and entities, including crypto token firms and market makers, were charged in Boston over alleged wash trading and pump-and-dump schemes. | Criminal charge | $25.0m forfeiture |
| 04 Oct 2024 | DOJ | US filed a civil forfeiture complaint against 200,000 USDT traced from bitcoin fraudulently taken from an Ohio victim's wallet. | Seizure or forfeiture | $200,000 forfeiture |
| 04 Oct 2024 | DOJ | The founder of cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme IcomTech was sentenced to 121 months in prison. | Sentence | — |
| 01 Oct 2024 | DOJ | A 21-year-old Indiana man pleaded guilty to conspiracies over a cyber intrusion that stole $37 million in crypto from about 600 victims. | Guilty plea | $37.0m stolen |
| 26 Sept 2024 | DOJ | Two Russian nationals charged with running money laundering services and carding sites; DOJ seizes domains of crypto exchanges including Cryptex. | Criminal charge | $1.15bn laundering |
| 26 Sept 2024 | DOJ | A Long Island man was convicted at trial of wire fraud, money laundering and stolen property conspiracy in a crypto brokering and investment fraud. | Conviction | $5.0m alleged fraud |
| 26 Sept 2024 | DOJ | The US seized over $6 million in cryptocurrency tied to a Southeast Asia-based crypto-confidence investment scam targeting Americans. | Seizure or forfeiture | $6.0m forfeiture |
| 19 Sept 2024 | DOJ | Two young men were charged with conspiring to steal and launder over $230 million in bitcoin from a Washington, D.C. victim. | Criminal charge | $230.0m stolen |
| 13 Sept 2024 | DOJ | A Florida man was sentenced to 47 years, and 11 co-conspirators also sentenced, for violent home invasions and SIM swaps to steal crypto. | Sentence | $3.5m stolen |
| 12 Sept 2024 | DOJ | An Austin, Texas man pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return underreporting gains from bitcoin sales, causing over $550,000 tax loss. | Guilty plea | $550,000 |
| 22 Aug 2024 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in North Carolina seized nearly $5 million in Tether traced to laundered proceeds of pig butchering investment scams. | Seizure or forfeiture | $5.0m forfeiture |
| 30 Jul 2024 | DOJ | The founder of the BitClout token was arrested and charged with wire fraud for allegedly misleading an investor about control of about $3 million. | Criminal charge | $3.0m alleged fraud |
| 24 Jul 2024 | DOJ | A Georgia man was sentenced to 32 months in prison for taking over $1.1 million for crypto mining computers he never delivered. | Sentence | $1.1m restitution |
| 18 Jul 2024 | DOJ | A former crypto research firm finance VP pleaded guilty to wire fraud for stealing about $4.46 million from his employer. | Guilty plea | $4.5m stolen |
| 16 Jul 2024 | DOJ | Prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action to recover about $2.5 million in USDT allegedly tied to pig butchering scams targeting Americans. | Seizure or forfeiture | $2.5m forfeiture |
| 10 Jul 2024 | DOJ | BitMEX operator HDR Global Trading pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by willfully failing to maintain an AML program. | Guilty plea | — |
| 03 Jul 2024 | DOJ | A Colorado man was sentenced to 33 months in prison for stealing about $2.1 million in cryptocurrency from a client he advised. | Sentence | $2.1m stolen |
| 26 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A man from Uzbekistan was extradited and arraigned on charges of using a fake crypto wallet app to steal about $11.8 million in EOS. | Criminal charge | $11.8m stolen |
| 26 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A former Spokane man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for running a fake crypto investment fund that took over $350,000 from investors. | Guilty plea | $350,000 alleged fraud |
| 25 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A former crypto company CEO and its finance head were sentenced to prison for manipulating the price of the HYDRO token. | Sentence | $2.0m alleged fraud |
| 25 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A Florida man was convicted by a federal jury for leading a crew that used violent home invasions and kidnappings to steal cryptocurrency. | Conviction | $150,000 stolen |
| 25 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A South Texas man was sentenced for receiving child sexual abuse material he purchased with cryptocurrency. | Sentence | — |
| 21 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A Colorado man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for soliciting investors in a fake crypto MEV trading bot, with losses over $2.2 million. | Guilty plea | $2.2m alleged fraud |
| 05 Jun 2024 | DOJ | A Florida man who was a senior promoter of the Forcount crypto Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy. | Guilty plea | $4.0m forfeiture |
| 30 May 2024 | DOJ | Two Estonian men charged in an alleged $575 million HashFlare crypto mining Ponzi scheme were extradited to the U.S. | Criminal charge | $575.0m alleged fraud |
| 30 May 2024 | DOJ | Two Estonian nationals were extradited to the US to face charges over an alleged $575M HashFlare crypto mining Ponzi scheme. | Other action | $575.0m alleged fraud |
| 29 May 2024 | DOJ | A disbarred California attorney pleaded guilty to conspiring in a $9.5 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme using fake AI trading promises. | Guilty plea | $9.5m alleged fraud |
| 28 May 2024 | DOJ | A former FTX executive was sentenced to 90 months for unlawful political contributions and running an unlicensed money transmitting business. | Sentence | $6.0m forfeiture |
| 23 May 2024 | DOJ | A former Kansas bank CEO pleaded guilty to embezzling $47.1 million of bank funds sent to crypto wallets, causing the bank to fail. | Guilty plea | $47.1m stolen |
| 17 May 2024 | DOJ | A Brooklyn man posing as a crypto entrepreneur pleaded guilty to wire fraud for swindling investors of over $1.3 million. | Guilty plea | $1.3m restitution |
| 17 May 2024 | DOJ | Two Chinese nationals were arrested and charged with laundering at least $73 million from crypto investment scams through shell companies. | Criminal charge | $73.0m laundering |
| 16 May 2024 | DOJ | A Helena man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for distributing fentanyl he bought on the dark web with cryptocurrency. | Sentence | — |
| 16 May 2024 | DOJ | Secret Service seized a web domain used in a crypto pig butchering scheme that cost a Warren County victim over $341,000. | Seizure or forfeiture | $341,000 stolen |
| 15 May 2024 | DOJ | Two brothers were arrested and charged with allegedly exploiting the Ethereum blockchain to steal about $25 million in crypto in 12 seconds. | Criminal charge | $25.0m stolen |
| 07 May 2024 | DOJ | Former CEO of crypto futures exchange Digitex Futures pleaded guilty to causing Bank Secrecy Act violations by skipping an AML program. | Guilty plea | — |
| 07 May 2024 | DOJ | A former California nonprofit CEO was arrested on charges she embezzled over $225,000 in federal grants, partly for cryptocurrency. | Criminal charge | $225,000 stolen |
| 03 May 2024 | DOJ | Three former Cred LLC executives were indicted for an alleged crypto lending fraud causing customer losses possibly exceeding $780 million. | Criminal charge | $783.0m alleged fraud |
| 30 Apr 2024 | DOJ | An early bitcoin investor known as 'Bitcoin Jesus' was indicted for allegedly evading taxes on bitcoin holdings, causing a $48 million IRS loss. | Criminal charge | $48.0m alleged fraud |
| 24 Apr 2024 | DOJ | Two co-founders of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet were arrested and charged with money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting conspiracies. | Criminal charge | $100.0m laundering |
| 18 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A California man was charged in a tech-support impersonation scam that took a retiree's savings via Bitcoin ATMs and gold purchases. | Criminal charge | — |
| 18 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A Puerto Rico man was convicted by a jury of manipulating Mango Markets to obtain about $110 million in cryptocurrency. | Conviction | $110.0m stolen |
| 15 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A Nebraska man was indicted for an alleged cryptojacking scheme defrauding cloud providers of $3.5 million in computing resources. | Criminal charge | $3.5m alleged fraud |
| 12 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A former security engineer was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking two decentralized crypto exchanges and stealing over $12 million. | Sentence | $12.0m stolen |
| 11 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A Jacksonville, Florida woman pleaded guilty to laundering drug trafficking proceeds through cryptocurrency to buy drugs on the dark web. | Guilty plea | — |
| 03 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A former OneCoin head of legal and compliance was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to forfeit $111.44 million. | Sentence | $111.4m forfeiture |
| 02 Apr 2024 | DOJ | A Miami crypto exchanger was sentenced to 57 months for running an unlicensed money transmitting business that converted drug proceeds. | Sentence | $5.0m forfeiture |
| 28 Mar 2024 | DOJ | FTX founder sentenced to 25 years in prison and over $11 billion forfeiture for defrauding customers, investors and lenders. | Sentence | $11.00bn forfeiture |
| 26 Mar 2024 | DOJ | KuCoin and two of its founders were criminally charged with Bank Secrecy Act and unlicensed money transmission offenses. | Criminal charge | $5.00bn laundering |
| 26 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A San Francisco man pleaded guilty to laundering dark web drug sale proceeds through cryptocurrency and importing MDMA. | Guilty plea | — |
| 26 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A former New Jersey corrections officer pleaded guilty to securities fraud, including a sham crypto token marketed to first responders. | Guilty plea | $620,000 alleged fraud |
| 15 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A Queens man was sentenced to 16 months in prison for laundering Bitcoin he believed was drug proceeds and running an unlicensed money business. | Sentence | $133,000 laundering |
| 15 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A jury convicted two men of wire fraud conspiracy for their roles in the IcomTech cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. | Conviction | — |
| 14 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A former Loomis, California man was indicted on charges of laundering Silk Road drug proceeds received in Bitcoin. | Criminal charge | — |
| 13 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A California cryptocurrency exchanger pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and agreed to forfeit $1.3M. | Guilty plea | $1.3m forfeiture |
| 13 Mar 2024 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action for about $2.3 million in crypto seized from Binance accounts tied to a pig butchering scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $2.3m forfeiture |
| 12 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A Russian-Swedish man was convicted by a jury of running the Bitcoin Fog darknet mixer, which laundered about $400 million in bitcoin. | Conviction | $400.0m laundering |
| 08 Mar 2024 | DOJ | Federal prosecutors in Chicago seized about $1.4 million in USDT from an unhosted wallet linked to an alleged tech support scam. | Seizure or forfeiture | $1.4m forfeiture |
| 05 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A Seattle semi-pro rugby player was indicted on wire fraud charges for an alleged Ponzi scheme posing as a crypto mining operation. | Criminal charge | — |
| 21 Feb 2024 | DOJ | Two men were charged with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy over an alleged NFT rug pull that drew over $300,000 in crypto. | Criminal charge | $300,000 alleged fraud |
| 13 Feb 2024 | DOJ | A Keene, New Hampshire man convicted of bitcoin money laundering was ordered to pay $3.5 million restitution to 29 victims and forfeit assets. | Other action | $3.5m restitution |
| 13 Feb 2024 | DOJ | The CEO of crypto futures exchange Digitex Futures was charged with causing it to violate the Bank Secrecy Act by lacking an AML program. | Criminal charge | — |
| 07 Feb 2024 | DOJ | A Texas man was indicted for allegedly filing false tax returns underreporting bitcoin gains and structuring cash deposits. | Criminal charge | $4.0m |
| 07 Feb 2024 | DOJ | A Pennsylvania man was convicted by a jury of conspiring to manipulate the price of Hydrogen Technology's HYDRO token via spoof and wash trades. | Conviction | $300.0m alleged fraud |
| 29 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A Guam cryptocurrency broker was sentenced to 30 months for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business moving $5.5 million. | Sentence | $5.5m laundering |
| 29 Jan 2024 | DOJ | Three people charged, one pleading guilty, in an alleged $1.89 billion HyperFund crypto mining investment fraud scheme. | Criminal charge | $1.89bn alleged fraud |
| 26 Jan 2024 | DOJ | An Indian national pleaded guilty to running a dark web narcotics conspiracy paid in crypto, forfeiting about $150 million in cryptocurrency. | Guilty plea | $150.0m forfeiture |
| 25 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A former law firm partner was sentenced to 10 years in prison for laundering about $400 million in OneCoin fraud proceeds. | Sentence | $400.0m laundering |
| 23 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A Miami crypto exchanger pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business that exchanged over $5 million via LocalBitcoins. | Guilty plea | $5.0m laundering |
| 19 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A German national and CEO of USI Tech is charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering over a crypto investment scheme. | Criminal charge | $150.0m alleged fraud |
| 19 Jan 2024 | DOJ | Former CEO of crypto Ponzi scheme IcomTech sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit $914,000. | Sentence | $914,000 forfeiture |
| 19 Jan 2024 | DOJ | Investment firm CEO sentenced to two years in prison for cherry-picking scheme with misrepresented crypto and FX futures strategies. | Sentence | $1.6m forfeiture |
| 18 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A Sugar Land man was sentenced to 24 months for identity theft after stealing $520,000 and laundering it as Bitcoin via Bitstamp. | Sentence | $520,000 stolen |
| 11 Jan 2024 | DOJ | Sentence by the DOJ | Sentence | $5.0m penalty |
| 08 Jan 2024 | DOJ | A Maryland father was sentenced to 19 months, joining his son's 54-month term, for laundering darknet drug trafficking Bitcoin proceeds. | Sentence | $65.0m forfeiture |