Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb disclosed that the DOJ warned President Trump it would “go after” him if he commuted Ross Ulbricht’s sentence on the last day of his first term, delaying the Silk Road founder’s release until a full pardon in January 2025.
At the Bitcoin 2026 Conference, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel outlined a shift in the U.S. government’s approach to digital assets like Bitcoin.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal has requested updates from the DOJ and FinCEN on monitors overseeing Binance, citing AML compliance concerns, according to Fortune.
On November 3, 2025, it seems that the U.S. Marshall Service, at the direction of the Department of Justice, used Coinbase Prime to liquidate the bitcoin that the Samourai developers forfeited as part of their plea deal, likely violating President Trump’s mandate to keep such bitcoin in the United States Strategy Bitcoin Reserve.
As Keonne Rodriguez prepares to surrender to federal prison on December 18, advocates urge President Trump to pardon the Samourai Wallet co-founders, citing prosecutorial misconduct and a disputed interpretation of unlicensed money transmission laws that even FinCEN rejects.
In a major shift in federal oversight of bitcoin and crypto, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has officially disbanded its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement...
"Then they fight you" has finally arrived. Financial privacy is in the crosshairs and Bitcoin's promise as "freedom money" is at stake. From "The Privacy Issue".
