Former crypto exchange Gemini Trust executives Benjamin Small and Shane Molidor were the subject of a now-closed criminal investigation and have turned over laptops to the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, according to a court filing, the CFTC is now reporting, Bloomberg reported. is pushing to inspect the laptops as part of its civil case against Gemini. The criminal investigation, which revolves around Gemini’s first launch of U.S.-linked bitcoin futures contracts, is at the heart of a civil case brought by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last June. At the time, the CFTC accused Gemini of making false and misleading statements when it answered questions about futures contracts on the Gemini platform linked to the price of bitcoin from July to December 2017.