“Crypto is a haven for businesspeople with nefarious or criminal intent.”
The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) has successfully restrained $9.3 million in cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into the alleged mastermind behind Ghost, the dedicated encrypted communication platform.
The Narwee man, 32, was arrested on 17 September as part of AFP Operation Krakenand charged with five offences, including supporting a criminal organisation.
More than 9,000 scam Facebook pages deleted after Australians lose $43.4m to celebrity deepfakes
Crypto founder paid LA cops to help extort victims for crypto, FBI alleges Coin Telegraph
Jack Luman Smith : U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has made public a key filing from special counsel Jack Smith that includes evidence compiled in his investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged efforts to subvert the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election.
The highly anticipated 165-page filing provides the most comprehensive look at the evidence federal prosecutors have amassed in their case, which was upended by the Supreme Court's July decision finding Trump is entitled to some level of immunity from federal charges. …
As his bid to hold on to power in 2020 grew increasingly desperate, Donald Trump pressed Republican Party Chair Ronna McDaniel to help promote a false claim that voting machines in Michigan had been manipulated.
McDaniel balked. She had spoken to the state’s House speaker, Lee Chatfield, a Republican, who told her the claim was “fucking nuts.”
Read Jack Smith's Unsealed Court Filing Against Donald Trump
"Politically motivated manifesto": Trump seeks redactions in Jan. 6 case
My Twitter Ban Is Political Ken Klippenstein
The $10 Million Eric Adams Is Charged With Stealing Speaks to a Vaster Plot
The Eric Adams indictment involves the abuse of small donations to obtain illegal matches and may go well beyond Turkiye donors
RBA should spell out rules on private meetings with market movers
The holding of confidential meetings can backfire when some people think that others are getting advantaged access to the central bank’s thinking.
How the ATO caught taxpayers cheating on ‘lifestyle’ assets
The Tax Office has provided The Australian Financial Review with exclusive details about some recent investigations.
Failure to pay tax on private jets, luxury yachts and exotic cars could trigger a deeper investigation by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) into how people earned the money to afford so-called “lifestyle assets”, according to tax specialists.
U.S. Races Towards Lithium Independence with Ambitious Mining Projects OilPrice
Electric cars causing fires after Hurricane Helene flooding WFTS Tampa Bay
In their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed Crooked Timber
The Little House on the Edge of the New DealNonsite.org
Enemy of the State: An Interview with John ZerzanThe Anarchist Library
The Wait is Over: Putin Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine in Final Warning to West Simplicius, Simplicius the Thinker
Russia’s revised nuclear doctrine per latest speech by Vladimir Putin Gilbert Doctorow
Russia rattles the nuclear sabre again, as Ukraine devastates its munitions Al Jazeera
Israel ‘on the verge’ of Lebanon ground invasion, says US diplomat Middle East Eye
Hezbollah Strike Destroys Israeli David’s Sling Air Defence Battery as War Enters New Phase – Reports Military Watch
Lebanon locked down to prevent Hezbollah from rearming, IDF says Ynet News
Is Lebanon part of Israel’s promised territory? The Jerusalem Post