{"id":88533,"date":"2024-06-17T01:29:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=88533"},"modified":"2024-06-17T01:17:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:17:52","slug":"from-40-billion-fraud-to-4-5-billion-settlement-inside-the-latest-crypto-firm-paying-big-bucks-to-end-legal-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2024\/from-40-billion-fraud-to-4-5-billion-settlement-inside-the-latest-crypto-firm-paying-big-bucks-to-end-legal-trouble.html","title":{"rendered":"From $40 billion fraud to $4.5 billion settlement: Inside the latest crypto firm paying big bucks to end legal trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Months before Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX fraud was exposed, and years before Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, would admit fault and settle with the U.S. for several billion dollars, Do Kwon was widely regarded as crypto\u2019s top villain for nearly dismantling the entire sector with his failed U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/06\/16\/inside-latest-crypto-firm-paying-billions-to-end-legal-troubles-.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Months before Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX fraud was exposed, and years before Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, would admit fault and settle with the U.S. for several billion dollars, Do Kwon was widely regarded as crypto\u2019s top [&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-88533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88533","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=88533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88534,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88533\/revisions\/88534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}