**Crypto Crime Crackdown: 2024's Legal Showdowns**

2024 saw Bitcoin hit a record high, but it was also a year of reckoning for crypto criminals. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, extradited from the Bahamas, began a 25-year sentence in Brooklyn. His former colleagues, Caroline Ellison and Ryan Salame, also faced prison time for fraud.

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm awaits trial, while his partner Roman Semenov remains at large. In the Netherlands, Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to over five years for money laundering.

IcomTech's David Carmona received a 10-year sentence, while Bitfinex hackers Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan faced justice. Meanwhile, speculation swirls around a potential pardon for Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht.