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Halfpoint | Istock | Getty ImagesThe road to Kaimi's ruin started in December, with an Instagram message about a Japanese monkey from a handsome stranger who called himself Mike. Over the coming months "Mike" and Kaimi would develop a…

CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesA former Apple employee who swindled the company out of more than $17 million with a scheme that double-billed for parts was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $33…

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried attends a press conference at the FTX Arena in downtown Miami on Friday, June 4, 2021.Matias J. Ocner | Miami Herald | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesSam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX — the…

John Ray, chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, arrives at bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022.Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Department of Justice has requested that…

A charity backed by Sam Bankman-Fried and his failed cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, has sounded alarms to regulators in the United Kingdom that raise questions about the viability of the nonprofits he's funded.The Charity Commission for…

A member of the US Secret Service speaks on a cellphone as US President-elect Donald Trump attends meetings at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 10, 2016.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern…

The Taihuttu family in November, days after moving back to Phuket.Didi TaihuttuConfidence is quickly eroding in the crypto sector, as it faces a wave of bankruptcies and investigations into Sam Bankman-Fried and his failed exchange, FTX,…

This illustration photo shows a smart phone screen displaying the logo of FTX, the crypto exchange platform, with a screen showing the FTX website in the background in Arlington, Virginia on February 10, 2022.Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty…

Hackers who stole around $477 million worth of cryptocurrency from collapsed exchange FTX have started to launder the funds into bitcoin.This month, after FTX filed for bankruptcy, new CEO John Ray III said that "unauthorized access to…

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and Founder of FTX, walks near the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2022.Graeme Sloan | Sipa via AP ImagesNASSAU, Bahamas — Despite being pushed out of the cryptocurrency giant he founded, Sam…