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Braden John Karony , Kyle Nagy, and Thomas Smith have been charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and money laundering, all linked to their roles with the SafeMoon Crypto currency project.  The criminal complaint claims that the defendants and their business, SafeMoon US LLC, lied to investors about what ‘locked’ liquidity meant and then used the money from investors to buy things like a Porsche 911 and real estate. SafeMoon marketed itself by emphasizing that it was unable to engage in a ‘rug pull’ due to the way it ‘locked’ its liquidity. However, these promises were never accurate, and Smith maintained control over the project’s liquidity pools. FBI ties and Ponzi games — here’s what SafeMoon doesn’t want you to know Read more: Five ridiculous claims from the latest SafeMoon court battle Furthermore, despite claiming they didn’t hold any SafeMoon tokens for personal u...

Lawyers representing SBF have agreed to a gag order preventing him from making comments that could sway his criminal trial but says it should apply to other witnesses too. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to a “gag order” which will prevent him from making comments to third parties that may interfere with his trial — but argues it should apply to all potential witnesses as well, including current FTX CEO John Ray. The gag order against Sam Bankman-Fried was initially requested on July 20, when the U.S. government accused the FTX founder of attempting to interfere with a fair trial by publicly discrediting former business partner and witness Caroline Ellison in an interview with the  New York Times. In a July 22 letter to United States District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of New York, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers Cohen & Gresser LLP denied the accusations but agreed to accept a gag order as requested. A gag order is a legal order often issued by a court to restrict informa...