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US Attorney for the District of Columbia and former judge and prosecutor, previously a Fox News host and television commentator.
The two sides will run parallel investigations and settle between themselves who charges whom. The last multi-country operation of this kind froze $3.8 million, most of it by one exchange's compliance desk.
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Prosecutors valued the take at 4,100 bitcoin, more than $245 million, drained after one Washington holder granted Google Drive access and read out security codes; every other victim named in the case totals about $14.8 million.
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American and British prosecutors have agreed to decide between themselves where scam-center cases get charged, and an industry disruption event in October will show who outside government is expected to act on that timetable.
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The memorandum signed Thursday commits both agencies to an in-person disruption event with private industry partners, hosted by the National Crime Agency in London in early October, on cases they had already found overlapping.
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Seizure warrants across 2025 and 2026 reached domains, servers and one hosted IP rather than a fixed set of wallets. That moves the detection burden from screening known addresses toward spotting the channel that mints new ones.
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