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🎯 Barclays tries to slash UK investors' $720M 'dark pool' lawsuit. Hundreds of institutional investors are suing after more than 2B pounds was wiped off Barclays' value in 2014, when NY’s attorney general filed a complaint over "Barclays LX". Reuters
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🌎 1MDB Fugitive Low Must Forfeit Mom’s Trio of ‘Flawless’ Diamonds. A federal judge in LA ordered the fugitive Malaysian financier, known as Jho Low, to surrender claims to a 7.35 carat diamond ring. Bloomberg
🌎 China Drops Sanctions on U.S. Communications Firm in Rare Reversal. Viasat operates several subsidiaries related to China, including a local branch of Inmarsat, a British satellite services provider. Bloomberg
🌎 Mexico City police chief shot dead in ‘drug cartel hit’. He was hit twice in the head when gunmen jumped out of two SUVs as the police commander stopped at a small supermarket. Telegraph
🌎 Trump appeals his $454M New York civil fraud case. Defense lawyers argued that NY Attorney General Letitia James' case focused on transactions outside the court's statute of limitations and misapplied the relevant law. ABC
🌎 U.S. Says Billionaire Gertler’s Royalties Must Go to Congo for Sanctions Deal. The U.S. sanctioned Gertler in 2017, accusing him of using connections to then-President Joseph Kabila to siphon off $1B from Congo. Bloomberg
🌎 Roblox’s Pedophile Problem. The internet’s biggest recreation zone for kids is fighting to keep predators away, and it’s not always winning. Bloomberg
🌎 Former CEO of Pompano Beach business pleads guilty in $200M Ponzi scheme. Johanna Michely Garcia, former CEO of MJ Capital Funding, was providing shady merchant cash advances. Sun Sentinel
🌎 Iranian Suicide Drones Constructed With American Components. Texas senator investigating lapse in U.S. sanctions enabling Tehran’s proxies to fund war on Israel. Free Beacon
🌎 CrowdStrike Warns of Hacking Threat as Outage Persists. Warning customers that bad actors were trying to exploit the event, the company identified a malicious file sent by hackers posing as a ‘quick fix’ to the problem. WSJ
🚩 Largest trial court in the U.S. closes after ransomware attack AP
🌎 Man indicted for importing 2 tons of chemicals from China to make fentanyl-laced pills. Fang avoided law enforcement interdiction by mislabeling packages, lying about the contents, and mixing them with other products. ABC
🌎 ‘Wolf of Airbnb’ Konrad Bicher sentenced to prison for illegal NYC sublet scheme. The wannabe business whiz exploited tenant protections enacted during the pandemic to stop landlords from evicting him, while he defrauded them by renting out their properties. NYP
🚩 OFAC Guidance on Extension of Statute of Limitations U.S. Treasury
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