{"id":672028,"date":"2026-10-17T02:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=856603"},"modified":"2026-10-17T02:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:30:18","slug":"judge-refuses-to-erase-geminis-5m-settlement-despite-cftc-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/judge-refuses-to-erase-geminis-5m-settlement-despite-cftc-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Refuses to Erase Gemini\u2019s $5M Settlement Despite CFTC Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/judge-refuses-to-erase-geminis-5m-settlement-despite-cftc-reversal-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>In a rare courtroom reversal, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) joined cryptocurrency exchange Gemini in asking a federal judge to overturn their $5 million settlement after the agency concluded its original lawsuit should never have been filed. But on Oct. 15, 2026, Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused, leaving the paid penalty and permanent injunction intact [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare courtroom reversal, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) joined cryptocurrency exchange Gemini in asking a federal judge to overturn their $5 million settlement after the agency concluded its original lawsuit should never have been filed. But on Oct. 15, 2026, Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused, leaving the paid penalty and permanent injunction intact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-672028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}