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FinCEN 30th Anniversary April 25, 2020
31 U.S.C. 310 Mandate from the Congress The statute established FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, within the Treasury Department, and was followed by Treasury Order No. 105-08 on April 25, 1990. 31 U.S.C. 310(b)(2) states the duties and powers of the Director are as follows: Advise and make recommendations on matters relating to financial [...]
DOJ Indictment for the $36M SamSam Ransomware CyberAttacks
Dept of Justice, US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, Newark, NJ United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (Newark, NJ) USA v Faramarz Shari Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, 3:18-cr-00704-BRM Cyberattack Criminal Action: On November 28, 2018, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, on behalf of the DOJ [...]
SEC v Colburn Consent Order (EtherDelta Exchange), File No. 3-18888
Synopsis of the Securities and Exchange Commission Proceeding and Order re: In the Matter of Zachary Colburn (EtherDelta Exchange), November 8, 2018 SEC Release No. 34-84553; Administrative Proceeding File No. 3-18888 SEC Colburn Cooperation: On November 8, 2018, the SEC issued an administrative consent ORDER instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings pursuant to Section 21C of the [...]
Crypto Criminal Indictment – USA v Maksim Zaslavskiy, USDC EDNY, 17 CR 647 – Order by Judge Dearie
Dept of Justice, US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn) USA v Zaslavskiy, 1:17-cr-00647-RJD-RER Order of the Court to Proceed to Trial: Please see the previous blog post reviewing the initiation of the Civil Action and the filing [...]
NIST SBCA – NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-236
The NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-236, was signed into law on August 14, 2018, by President Trump. The NIST SBCA Section 2 amends Section 2(e)(1)(A) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 272(e)(1)(A)) to require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to incorporate [...]
US Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Digital Currency Acts and Statutes
Action Cyber Times™ list of relevant US Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Digital Currency Acts and Statutes The following is a list of United States laws that may be cited by various US government agencies depending upon their authority: Cybercrime definition Cybercrime is defined by the International Organization for Standardization (www.iso.org) as "criminal activity where services or [...]
Securities Act of 1933
The Securities Act of 1933 was adopted May 27, 1933, ch. 38, title I, §1, of the 73rd Congress; compiled at 48 Stat. 74; and codified as 15 U.S.C. 77a to 77bbbb. It was enacted in response to the glaring deficiencies in US financial market regulation which caused the market crash of 1929 and the [...]
28 U.S.C. 2461 – Mode of Recovery
Title 28 - United States Code - Judicial Procedure Part VI - Proceedings Chapter 163 - Fines, Penalties and forfeitures Sec. 2461. Mode of recovery [optional link to www.govinfo.gov - details of statute history and downloads] [optional link to www.govinfo.gov - text of statute] [optional link to www.govinfo.gov - pdf of statute] (a) Whenever a [...]
18 USC 1001 – False statements to the US government
Title 18 - United States Code - Crimes and Criminal Procedure Part 1 - Crimes Chapter 47 - Fraud and False Statements Sec. 1001. False 'Statements or entries generally' to the United States government (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial [...]
18 U.S.C. 659 – Interstate or foreign shipments by carrier; State prosecutions
Title 18 - United States Code - Crimes and Criminal Procedure Part 1 - Crimes Chapter 31 - Embezzlement and Theft Sec. 659. - Interstate or foreign shipments by carrier; State prosecutions Whoever embezzles, steals, or unlawfully takes, carries away, or conceals, or by fraud or deception obtains from any pipeline system, railroad car, wagon, [...]