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The deadline was the gun. The merger was the trigger.

Vadim Komissarov ran a SPAC into a deadline he could not afford to miss. To get the Lottery.com merger across the line, federal prosecutors say he helped manufacture revenue out of nothing. On June 24, 2026, a federal judge gave him three years.

By Mark Tell · Jun 25
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The tree-planting fintech that planted its own customers

Joseph Sanberg sold the world a bank that planted trees. The trees were real. The customers paying for them, prosecutors say, were him. On June 1, a federal judge sentenced him to 14 years.

By Elena Ruiz · Jun 2
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