New York judge questions return of recovered funds to Bitfinex—here’s why it matters

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has questioned the propriety of returning seized cryptocurrencies to Bitfinex as proposed by the US government. This judicial scrutiny comes as part of the ongoing criminal proceedings against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, who were implicated in the 2016 Bitfinex […]