Archive for February, 2023

Russian Cybersecurity Expert Convicted in Hack-to-Trade Conspiracy

  • February 28, 2023
  • Clayton Rice, K.C.

On February 14, 2023, a federal jury in Boston, Massachusetts, convicted Russian businessman, Vladislav Klyushin, of participating in an elaborate hack-to-trade conspiracy that netted millions through securities trades based on nonpublic information stolen from U.S. computer networks. Mr. Klyushin, whose…

The King of Crypto and the FTX Collapse

  • February 15, 2023
  • Clayton Rice, K.C.

On December 12, 2022, billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested at his apartment complex in Nassau, Bahamas, after criminal charges were filed in New York. It was a dramatic fall for the founder and CEO of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange that…