Genesis, Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto venture charged by SEC with selling unregistered securities
U.S. securities regulators on Thursday charged Genesis Global Capital and crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co. with offering and selling of unregistered securities to retail investors, bypassing disclosures and other requirements aimed at protecting market participants. Genesis and Gemini raised billions of dollars’ worth of crypto assets from hundreds of thousands of investors through unregistered offers, […]
‘Super lame,’ says Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss about SEC charges
New charges against crypto platforms Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust Co. by the Securities and Exchange Commission are “disappointing,” said Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of Gemini, in a Twitter thread on Thursday evening. Earlier Thursday, the SEC charged Genesis and Gemini with engaging in the offering and sale of unregistered crypto asset securities through Gemini […]
Holy high rollers: phony pastors targeted immigrants in $28 million Ponzi scheme
“I’m everything you imagine me to be, as long as it’s good and it’s Godly.” That’s how Dennis Jali, a South African self-proclaimed finance guru sold his Christian-themed program of financial success to crowds of mainly African immigrants at churches and banquet halls in and around Baltimore and Washington, D.C. But while Jali claimed he […]