Bankruptcy & Restructuring News Headlines for Friday Jul 14, 2023

Here's what we are reading this morning:

Southern District of New York | Celsius Founder And Former Chief Revenue Officer Charged In Connection With Multibillion-Dollar Fraud And Market Manipulation Schemes | United States Department of Justice: Alexander Mashinsky, Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer of Celsius, Charged with Defrauding Celsius Customers, and Mashinsky and Roni Cohen-Pavon, Former Celsius Chief Revenue Officer, Charged with Manipulating the Market for Celsius Crypto Token

SEC Charges Celsius Network Limited and Founder Alex Mashinsky with Fraud and Unregistered Offer and Sale of Securities: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Celsius Network Limited (Celsius) and its founder and former CEO, Alex Mashinsky, for violating registration and anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws, including by failing to register the offers and sales of Celsius’s crypto lending product, the Earn Interest Program; making false and misleading statements to investors of the Earn Interest Program and Celsius’s own crypto asset security, CEL; and engaging in market manipulation as it relates to CEL.

CFTC Charges Alexander Mashinsky and Celsius Network, LLC with Fraud and Material Misrepresentations in Massive Commodity Pool Scheme Involving Digital Asset Commodities | CFTC: CFTC Charges Alexander Mashinsky and Celsius Network, LLC with Fraud and Material Misrepresentations in Massive Commodity Pool Scheme Involving Digital Asset Commodities

FTC Reaches Settlement with Crypto Platform Celsius Network; Charges Former Executives with Duping Consumers into Transferring Cryptocurrency into their Platform and then Squandering Billions in User Deposits | Federal Trade Commission: The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with bankrupt cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network that will permanently ban it from handling consumers’ assets and charged three former executives with tricking consumers into transferring cryptocurrency onto the platform by falsely promising that deposits would be safe and always available.

Celsius and Mashinsky: The Most Striking Indictment Details - Bloomberg: Ex-CEO allegedly lied about success of initial token offering; Company is accused of misleading customers amid crypto turmoil

Johnson & Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer | Reuters: Johnson & Johnson has sued four doctors who published studies citing links between talc-based personal care products and cancer, escalating an attack on scientific studies that the company alleges are inaccurate.





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