Wake Up Call: New DOJ Probe Targets Bitcoin Price Manipulation

• The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether traders are manipulating the price of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, in a move said to dramatically increase U.S. scrutiny of red-hot markets prone to misconduct. ( Bloomberg via BLB )

• Manhattan federal prosecutors are investigating sex-crime allegations against disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein has denied the allegations and his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said he is trying to get the probe dropped. Brafman’s other high-profile clients include jailed pharma bro Martin Shkreli. ( New York Law Journal )

• Also in New York, the special prosecutor investigating former New York Attorney General ...