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Happy Monday!  Itโ€™s June 24, and weโ€™re tracking top stories to start your week: U.S. prosecutors recommend DOJ criminally charge Boeing, Kremlin controls Wagner remnants a year after mutiny, Swiss push to rewire financial system in wake of banking crash, spotlight on Al Jazeera's faux journalism and Hamas masquerade, and much more...  

 

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๐ŸŽฏ U.S. prosecutors recommend DOJ criminally charge Boeing. In May, officials determined the company breached a 2021 agreement that had shielded Boeing from a criminal charge of conspiracy arising from two fatal crashes. Reuters

 

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๐ŸŒŽ A year after mutiny, Kremlin controls Wagner remnants. Following Prigozhin's death, Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov toured African capitals, assuring officials that the services provided by the group would not dissipate. BBC

 

๐ŸŒŽ Swiss Push to Rewire Financial System in Wake of Banking Crash. As Credit Suisse spiraled toward insolvency early last year, a group of Swiss bankers, technocrats and regional officials were already busy laying the groundwork for a new type of financial infrastructure. Bloomberg

 

๐ŸŒŽ All eyes should be on Al Jazeera for being founded, funded โ€” and directed โ€” by terrorists. A โ€œnetworkโ€ whose โ€œjournalistsโ€ seem never to be more than one step away from terror, but who seem to get no criticism for it. NYP

 

๐ŸŒŽ Binanceโ€™s General Counsel Faces Some of the Toughest Challenges in Crypto. Eleanor Hughes has a lot to keep her busy, ranging from a testy dispute with Nigerian officials to strict monitoring by US authorities. Bloomberg

 

๐ŸŒŽ AI Is Helping Scammers Outsmart You โ€“ and Your Bank. In recent years, criminals have used AI-based software to impersonate senior executives and demand wire transfers. WSJ

 

๐ŸŒŽ Vatican's trial of the century heads to British court. Archbishop will be cross-examined over ยฃ350m London property fraud case that saw Pope Francis authorize wire-tapping. DM

 

๐ŸŒŽ Michael Flynn Has Turned His Trump-World Celebrity Into a Family Business. The former national security adviser took over a nonprofit group. Soon, it was paying five of his relatives and trafficking in conspiracy theories. NYT

 

๐ŸŒŽ The SEC has become another tool in Bidenโ€™s arsenal as it becomes more and more woke. Faux investors can simply buy a few shares of stock to promote their political cause and, presto, they can put their proposal to a vote. NYP

 

๐ŸŒŽ Iran Stripped of $300B in Oil Revenues Under Sanctions. Rouhani accused former president Ebrahim Raisi's government of "betraying" the Iranian people over the course of three years. Iran International

 

๐ŸŒŽ TikTok legal filing details case against potential US ban. TikTok expressed several reasons why selling itself โ€” what the law refers to as a "qualified divestiture" โ€” is a practical impossibility. VOA

 

๐Ÿšฉ The schoolchildren being lured by rebels on TikTok BBC

 

๐ŸŒŽ The EU Digital Identity Wallet: Everything you need to know about the EUโ€™s plans for a universal digital identity system TechCrunch

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Russia & China

 

๐Ÿ’ฅ China is watching warily as Putin and Kim forge new โ€˜allianceโ€™ Politico

 

๐Ÿ’ฅ Russia and North Koreaโ€™s military deal formalizes a bustling arms trade WaPo

 

๐Ÿ’ฅ Pentagon Can't Figure Out How Much Money It Spent on Risky Virus Research in China Free Beacon

 

๐Ÿ’ฅ Habeck Urges China to Stop Circumventing EU Sanctions on Russia Bloomberg

 

๐Ÿ’ฅ Xi signals further military purges to eradicate corruption VOA

 

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Corruption & Financial Crime

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Elder fraud has reached epidemic proportions Conversation

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Deadly Counterfeit Air Bags Are Making Their Way Into Vehicles WSJ

 

๐Ÿ’ธ How Sports Are Making Saudi Arabia Look Better Than Ever Newsweek

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Savvy thieves use devious hidden cameras to scope out houses in โ€˜burglary tourismโ€™ NYP

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Argentina President Milei promises to quash corruption, then shocks with his Supreme Court pick AP

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Lockheed Martin subsidiaries reach $70M settlement for claims they overcharged Navy AP

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Tom Girardi used client money to fund his wifeโ€™s entertainment career LAT

 

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Crypto & Cyber

 

๐Ÿ” MakerDAO delegateโ€™s $11M in tokens stolen in phishing scam Cointelegraph

 

๐Ÿ” Nvidia to launch in Middle East amid U.S. curbs on AI exports to region Reuters

 

๐Ÿ” 50 Cent's Twitter Hacked to Promote Solana Meme Coin Decrypt

 

๐Ÿ” Mark Cuban claims his Gmail was hacked after receiving hoax call Cointelegraph

 

๐Ÿ” Turkish crypto exchange BtcTurk says it was attacked, some hot wallets compromised DL News

 

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Trafficking

 

๐Ÿšš Over 100 body parts of vulnerable species seized in wildlife trafficking case NBC

 

๐Ÿšš N.Y. Bill to End Statute of Limitations on Sex Crimes Could Help Survivors Seek Justice Ms.

 

๐Ÿšš Taxpayer-Funded Immigrants' Rights Group Is Suing the Biden Admin Over Its Asylum Processing App Free Beacon

 

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