White Collar & Government Investigations Blog

Co-Chair of Olshan’s White Collar & Government Investigations Practice Robert Appleton was prominently quoted in a breaking Fortune article which has been cited in the US Senate Committee Hearing on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. The article exposes crypto flows from Binance accounts to a cluster of wallets investigators linked to Iran-connected sanctioned entities and ultimately to sanctioned groups, following the conviction of both the exchange and its CEO in US District Court last year for permitting transactions over its exchange for the benefit of the Iranian regime and sanctioned entities.

Co-Chair of Olshan’s White Collar & Government Investigations Practice Robert Appleton was prominently quoted in a breaking Fortune article on the Binance cryptocurrency sanctions scandal entitled “Inside the Binance Accounts Internal Investigators Say Helped Transfer More Than $1 Billion to Iran-Linked Entities: A 79-Year-Old VIP Chinese Trader and a Suspected Iranian Gold Smuggler.”

Olshan litigation partner John Moon and counsel Daniel Stone authored an article in The Legal Intelligencer entitled “Congressional Cryptocurrency Reform Targets Regulators Rather Than the Industry Itself.” In the article, John and Dan examine the CLARITY Act, which recently passed the House of Representatives, and situate it in the context of the 2022 cryptocurrency crisis.  John and Dan compare the CLARITY to prior legislative responses to financial crises. They describe the primary effect of the CLARITY Act as providing guidance as to regulatory ...

Olshan white collar litigation partner Robert Appleton published an article in Law360 (subscription required) entitled “Reviewing Trump Admin's Rapid Pro-Crypto Regulatory Pivot.” In the article, Bob writes about the dramatic shift in the U.S. government’s stance on digital assets and cryptocurrency under the second Trump administration.