Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri announced that Shane Hampton, Michael Kane, and others deceived investors by manipulating their company’s cryptocurrency prices through a trading bot. This landmark federal trial marked the first instance where a cryptocurrency was legally classified as a security, connecting price manipulation directly to securities fraud…
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