| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 31 Oct 2024 | DOJ | Founder of crypto market maker Gotbit indicted in superseding indictment for alleged wash trading and wire fraud conspiracy. | Criminal charge | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 14 Mar 2024 | DOJ | A former Loomis, California man was indicted on charges of laundering Silk Road drug proceeds received in Bitcoin. | Criminal charge | — |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |