Aleksei Andriunin, the founder of the cryptocurrency financial services firm Gotbit, has been extradited to the United States to face charges of market manipulation and fraud conspiracy. Authorities allege that from 2018 to 2024, Andriunin's firm engaged in practices such as 'wash trading' to artificially inflate cryptocurrency trading volumes on platforms like CoinMarketCap, resulting in substantial profits. Additionally, a North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to defrauding the U.S. Department of Education out of $5 million through a scheme involving 'straw students.' In related legal actions, Jacob Carter was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding the U.S. Small Business Administration of over $7.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Other recent cases include a Los Angeles woman sentenced to five years for fraudulently obtaining $2.3 million in government loans and a UK man sentenced to four years for operating illegal cryptocurrency ATMs, marking the first conviction of its kind in the UK.