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🎯 Three people indicted in $400M FTX crypto hack conspiracy. The scheme relied on duping phone companies into swapping the SIM of cell phone subscribers into a cellphone controlled by members of the conspiracy. CNBC
📌 Three individuals implicated in the $477M FTX heist? Elliptic
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🌎 Manhattan Woman Convicted of Using Crypto to Fund Terror Groups in Syria. Victoria Jacobs provided support to a military contractor that has been called “the Blackwater of jihad.” NYT
🌎 How a Mennonite farmer became a drug lord. Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels. LAT
🌎 Key Sanctions Adviser Leaves U.S. Treasury for Private Sector. Elizabeth Rosenberg was part of a core group of officials who developed the economic response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Bloomberg
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🚩 Biden issues executive order targeting Israeli settlers Axios
🚩 US Launches Fresh Sanctions Targeting Iran Revolutionary Guard AFP
🚩 US sanctions Iranian military hackers for attacks on water facilities Record
🚩 Issuance of Venezuela-related Frequently Asked Questions OFAC
🌎 40 years in prison for ex-CIA coder who leaked hacking tools to WikiLeaks. Joshua Schulte was found guilty of espionage in what the CIA called a "digital Pearl Harbor". AFP
🌎 The Very Illegal Cafe Where You Can Take Shrooms and Chew Coca. “Cops and raids can’t keep us down,” reads a sign outside of the Coca Leaf Cafe and Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary. VICE
🌎 UN Agency Is Accused of Links to Hamas. The Clues Were There All Along. The Western-funded group providing lifesaving aid in Gaza has long struggled to defend its neutrality from terrorists. WSJ
🌎 Danish Court Jails Two People for Laundering $4.2B. The woman operated as many as 40 companies out of Copenhagen, which all had accounts in Estonia and were owned by foreigners. Bloomberg
🌎 Top Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist Accused of Research Misconduct. Neuroscientist Khalid Shah allegedly falsified data and plagiarized images across 21 papers. Harvard Crimson
🌎 Ukraine suspends senior defense official amid corruption probe. The SBU said last week it had uncovered a scheme by current and former officials to embezzle $40M. Reuters
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