| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | A California man was sentenced to 15 years for his role in a Danbury kidnapping and attempted Bitcoin robbery scheme. | Sentence | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | A Detroit man was sentenced to 9 years in prison for concealing Bitcoin donations he intended to provide to ISIS. | Sentence | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 10 Mar 2025 | DOJ | Two Tulsa men were sentenced for running a dark web pharmacy selling misbranded drugs from China for cryptocurrency. | Sentence | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 04 Oct 2024 | DOJ | The founder of cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme IcomTech was sentenced to 121 months in prison. | Sentence | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 South Texas man was sentenced for receiving child sexual abuse material he purchased with cryptocurrency. | Sentence | — |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |