Stewart Bishop

Manhattan federal prosecutors on Tuesday told jurors that two MIT-educated brothers pulled off a meticulously planned $25 million crypto heist by ripping off other traders they didn't like, while defense counsel argued that the government is trying to take a legitimate "sharp-edged" trading strategy and turn it into a crime.

Two MIT-educated brothers accused of using an unlawful crypto trading strategy to steal $25 million from other traders on Monday rested their case without taking the stand, after a defense expert witness said they didn't violate any rules of the Ethereum blockchain.

Two MIT-educated brothers accused of using an unlawful crypto trading strategy to steal $25 million from other traders on Monday rested their case without taking the stand, after a defense expert witness said they didn't violate any rules of the Ethereum blockchain.

Manhattan federal prosecutors Thursday rested their case against two MIT-educated brothers accused of leveraging an Ethereum software glitch to fraudulently obtain $25 million in cryptocurrency, signing off with a series of the defendants' Google searches following the alleged theft that referred to famous white collar criminals and their prison terms.

A former quantitative trader for two MIT-educated cryptocurrency entrepreneurs told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday he didn't believe at the time that they were doing anything illegal when executing a strategy to obtain $25 million at the expense of other traders on the Ethereum blockchain.

A quantitative trader and former employee of two MIT-educated crypto entrepreneurs Friday told a Manhattan federal jury of how they planned months in advance to leverage a software glitch to obtain $25 million at the expense of other crypto traders on the Ethereum blockchain.

Counsel for two Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated brothers accused of pinching $25 million from Ethereum blockchain traders in a seconds-long bait and switch heist told a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday that it was actually a legitimate trading strategy in the "new, hard-charging" crypto trading environment.

The Manhattan federal judge overseeing a major racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL on Friday took a California attorney to task over a bungled pro hac vice filing and his failure to appear at a prior hearing, but stopped short of taking disciplinary action, for now.

The Manhattan federal judge overseeing a major racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL on Friday took a California attorney to task over a bungled pro hac vice filing and his failure to appear at a prior hearing, but stopped short of taking disciplinary action, for now.

The former chairman and CEO of FTE Networks Inc. on Thursday was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a multifaceted $13.6 million ploy to conceal the telecommunications and real estate company's shaky financial condition and embezzle company funds.