On Nov. 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire granted the Securities and Exchange Commission’s motion for summary judgment in SEC v. LBRY, Inc.
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David I. Miller, an experienced trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor, focuses his practice on white collar criminal defense, government and internal investigations, securities and commodities enforcement, related complex civil litigation, and cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, anti-money laundering, and national security matters. Previously, David served for five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y.), over half that time as a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. He also served as a terrorism prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, as an Assistant General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency, and as a white-collar, securities, and commercial litigation attorney in private practice. Before joining Greenberg Traurig, David was a partner at another global law firm.
On Nov. 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire granted the Securities and Exchange Commission’s motion for summary judgment in SEC v. LBRY, Inc.…
Continue Reading SEC v. LBRY, Inc.: The SEC’s Latest Crypto Victory
On Dec. 12, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought what crypto followers consider one of the most consequential enforcement actions related to the sale of cryptocurrency since the…
On Aug. 8, 2022, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed economic sanctions on Tornado Cash, a popular cryptocurrency mixing service that allows customers to…
Continue Reading OFAC Sanctions Cryptocurrency Mixing Service for Allegedly Facilitating Money Laundering
On Nov. 23, 2021, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a joint …
Continue Reading US Federal Banking Regulators Release Joint Statement on ‘Crypto-Asset Policy Sprint Initiative’
On Nov. 1, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) joined with the president’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) to…
Continue Reading President’s Working Group on Financial Markets Releases Report and Recommendations on Stablecoins
On Feb. 18, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a $507,375 settlement with BitPay, Inc., an Atlanta-based payment processing company that enables…
Continue Reading OFAC Resolution with BitPay Highlights Importance of Sanctions Compliance for All Companies Engaged in Digital Currency Transactions
On October 8, 2020, the Department of Justice’s Cyber-Digital Task Force (DOJ) published “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework” (the Framework), which provides DOJ’s perspective on emerging law enforcement issues and challenges
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Continue Reading DOJ’s Cryptocurrency Framework: A New Perspective?
In March 2020, a Southern District of New York court issued a significant decision in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Telegram Group Inc. et al., strengthening the U.S. government’s…
Continue Reading Another Significant Cryptocurrency Decision: SEC v. Kik Interactive Inc. and Token Offerings Under the Securities Laws
On March 24, 2020, Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York issued a potentially groundbreaking decision in the matter of Securities and Exchange Commission v. Telegram …
Continue Reading SEC v. Telegram: A Groundbreaking Decision in Cryptocurrency Enforcement?