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Company Accused of Using COVID Relief Funds to Buy Crypto

The owner of the Carolina Fish Market in Ballantyne, North Carolina is in trouble for using a COVID-based loan to purchase cryptocurrency. James Seidel has been accused of defrauding the Small Business Administration (SBA) using Economic Injury Disaster Loan funds. COVID Fraud Became Rather Prominent The COVID pandemic of 2020 and 2021 brought about a huge string of disasters. The economy tanked, people were out of work, and many businesses were forced to either...

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UC San Diego Receives Hefty Crypto Gift

The University of California in San Diego has been gifted $15 million in crypto by the Balvi Filantropic Fund, run by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. It’s easily one of the largest digital currency donations to ever be made to a school. The money will be put towards a program in which the school will perform research on aerosols. UC San Diego Is Getting a Lot of Crypto Funds Buterin mentioned in a statement: Over the last several years, it has become abundantly...

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A Texas Crypto Firm Is in Trouble for Defrauding COVID Program

A Dallas man and the digital currency company he created are in hot water after being charged with defrauding a financial program introduced during the COVID era that was designed to keep businesses afloat. Crypto Company Fraud Thanks to COVID John Corbin Corona, age 35, was indicted in mid-November on counts of both money laundering and wire fraud for allegedly inflating the size of his cryptocurrency business – HODL LLC – to garner extra funds through the PPP (Paycheck Protection Program)...

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