{"id":85300,"date":"2023-07-14T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85300"},"modified":"2023-07-14T01:41:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:41:19","slug":"former-celsius-ceo-arrested-company-agrees-to-pay-4-7-billion-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2023\/former-celsius-ceo-arrested-company-agrees-to-pay-4-7-billion-settlement.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Celsius CEO arrested, company agrees to pay $4.7 billion settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky was arrested Thursday on federal securities fraud charges, a source told CNBC as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/07\/13\/embattled-crypto-lender-celsius-informs-state-regulators-that-its-filing-for-bankruptcy-imminently-source-says-.html\">bankrupt<\/a> crypto exchange agreed to pay a $4.7 billion settlement with government regulators. The exchange was also charged by the SEC and CFTC with scheming to defraud investors out of billions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/13\/former-celsius-ceo-arrested-company-agrees-to-pay-4point7-billion-settlement.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky was arrested Thursday on federal securities fraud charges, a source told CNBC as the bankrupt crypto exchange agreed to pay a $4.7 billion settlement with government regulators. The exchange was also charged by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85301,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85300\/revisions\/85301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}