New York Attorney General Letitia James settled with former Celsius chief Alex Mashinsky for up to $35 million and a ban on trading securities and crypto. His $48.4 million federal forfeiture could reduce $10 million of that, leaving $25 million as the only fixed payment to the state.
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New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including children, a placebo Algo Refresh tool that confirmed a reset it never made. The unsealed complaint also quotes a TikTok well-being manager's written objection, documentary support for the state's claim that the company acted knowingly.
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Scrutiny of the reopened Cornell case falls on what police passed to the district attorney
New York Attorney General Letitia James now oversees the Cornell fraternity rape case in which a district attorney filed no charges in 2024. The review now turns on what police passed to prosecutors, a question Gov. Kathy Hochul has asked in public.
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Polymarket adopts sportsbook safeguards six days after New York sued it
Polymarket launched opt-in deposit limits, self-exclusion and mental-health referrals on September 30, six days after New York sued it over sports contracts. The tools come alongside its federal-court claim that commodity law overrides the state's gambling statutes.
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Polymarket recruits Goldman's former ETF-accelerator head to bring Wall Street desks onto its US exchange
Polymarket, valued at about $21 billion, hired ex-Goldman partner Lisa Mantil to bring big traders onto its US exchange. She starts selling while federal investigators, House members and New York officials still dispute how its contracts should be policed.
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Kristin Smith becomes the Blockchain Association's interim CEO on October 17 and keeps her job as president of the Solana Policy Institute. The industry-wide group will share its chief executive with one chain's lobby while the Clarity Act sits stalled in the Senate.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket as an unlicensed gambling business, the state's fourth such case, and Polymarket countersued within hours. Platforms are now setting age limits and state-by-state access while courts decide whether states or the CFTC govern prediction markets.
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New York sued Polymarket U.S. on Thursday for triple its gains plus $100,000 per sports-wager offer, following actions against Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini. The state's gambling test fits the event contract itself, so one ruling could reset what investors pay for every operator New York has pursued.
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Fifty-one attorneys general did not just extract a payment; they wrote a testable product specification and hired someone outside the company to check it. The open question is what the age checks may look at.
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Visa strips the digital-goods code from meme-coin card buys this week
Token purchases at Crossmint checkouts on Fomo and Robinhood Wallet went out under 5815, the code for e-books and streaming, and earned ordinary points. Visa's rules put crypto under 6012 or 6051 with a quasi-cash flag.
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Impression guarantees signed months ago were priced against platform defaults. The state settlement has now changed those defaults, and the contracts carrying the guarantees contain no clean mechanism for the gap that opens.
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Letitia James runs 8 points safer than the governor who joined her against Kalshi
Hochul's Siena lead has halved since June while her attorney general sits on 18 points. The New York office actually litigating prediction markets is the harder of the two for the industry to unseat.
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