A Florida federal judge sentenced a U.S. Air Force veteran and software developer to more than two years in prison on a wire fraud charge for soliciting more than $1 million from investors to pay for a cryptocurrency offering but using the funds to fuel a gambling addiction.
1st Circ. Chides SEC, Judge In Atty Stock Scheme Case
A split First Circuit has found that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was trying to hedge its bets before it asked the panel to reverse a partial dismissal of an enforcement action against a former Connecticut attorney that the agency had itself requested, but also that a Massachusetts district judge had made a series of errors that warrant kicking the SEC’s cases back to the lower court.
