Judge Rules Securities Laws Cover Initial Coin Offerings

Federal prosecutors won a key legal victory when a judge ruled that U.S. securities laws cover initial coin offerings. In what is believed to be the first criminal case of its kind, a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, refused to dismiss the case of a man charged with promoting digital currencies backed by investments in real estate and diamonds that prosecutors said didn’t exist.

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