Traditional Venue Theories May Not Encompass Crypto Fraud

By Kan Nawaday, Steven Swaney and Eva-Maria Ghelardi ( August 25, 2025, 2:16 PM EDT) -- On May 23, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York overturned a jury verdict against Mango Markets trader Avraham Eisenberg, granting a motion for judgment of acquittal based on venue deficiencies and insufficient evidence. Specifically, the court found in U.S. v. Eisenberg that the government had not sufficiently linked Eisenberg's manipulative trading conduct to New York and had failed to prove a false statement to support a conviction for wire fraud....

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