<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1624796D%20CH%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-11e0-d583-afbf-d3fc58d00000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Binance co-founder <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-11e0-d583-afbf-d3fc58d00001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Changpeng Zhao is facing up to three years in prison, if efforts by US prosecutors to secure his sentencing prove successful. More than 160 friends, colleagues and investors are determined for the crypto executive to escape incarceration entirely.

Two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto-mixing service were charged by federal prosecutors with helping launder $100 million in crime proceeds.

A man sentenced to five years in prison for his part in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns had his sentence upheld by a federal appeals court.

A Florida woman convicted of trying to claim more than $2.9 billion in fraudulent tax refunds, and acquiring $5.3 million, failed to convince the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday that she should be acquitted.

The US Supreme Court has never considered whether former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for acts they took in office. Before Donald Trump, the court never needed to.

Three former Backpage.com owners found guilty by a jury of offenses arising from the website’s promotion of prostitution won their motions for acquittal on dozens of counts from a federal judge who agreed certain evidence at trial was lacking.