{"id":428,"date":"2026-02-26T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/?p=428"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:58:58","slug":"southern-district-of-new-york-u-s-attorneys-office-examines-laws-on-prediction-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2026\/02\/26\/southern-district-of-new-york-u-s-attorneys-office-examines-laws-on-prediction-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office Examines Laws on Prediction Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/williammcswain.html\">William M. McSwain<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/bryanshapiro.html\">Bryan Shapiro<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton recently signaled that federal prosecutors are actively evaluating how existing criminal statutes apply to prediction markets\u2014and that enforcement actions may follow in appropriate cases. His remarks underscore law enforcement interest in prediction markets, financial products that may resemble traditional securities or derivatives, and related activity in the crypto ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/southern_district_new_york_us_attorneys_office_examines_laws_prediction_markets_0226.html\">Alert<\/a><\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William M. McSwain and Bryan Shapiro U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton recently signaled that federal prosecutors are actively evaluating how existing criminal statutes apply to prediction markets\u2014and that enforcement actions may follow in appropriate cases. His remarks underscore law enforcement interest in prediction markets, financial products that may &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2026\/02\/26\/southern-district-of-new-york-u-s-attorneys-office-examines-laws-on-prediction-markets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office Examines Laws on Prediction Markets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,368,11],"ppma_author":[241],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-doj","tag-prediction-markets","tag-white-collar"],"authors":[{"term_id":241,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}