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Hello Wednesday!  Itโ€™s August 14, and weโ€™re tracking today's top stories: Agents find more than 2,300 pounds of meth hidden in celery, chief compliance officer pay rises, Chinese banks are refusing to process payments from Russia, Harris campaign's Google ads rewrite news headlines, and much more...  

 

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๐ŸŽฏ Agents find more than 2,300 pounds of meth hidden in celery. In what the DEA called one of the largest seizures of its kind, agents confiscated the drugs being delivered to the Atlanta State Farmers Market. CBS 

 

๐Ÿง New Zealand charity distributes candies with lethal levels of meth NBC

 

Top Stories

 

๐ŸŒŽ Chief Compliance Officer Pay Rises, but at a Slower Pace. Median compensation for compliance chiefs at public companies rose 7% to $419,000 in 2024. WSJ

 

๐Ÿšฉ America's Companies Are Being Forced to Reveal Your Salary Newsweek

 

๐ŸŒŽ Nearly all Chinese banks are refusing to process payments from Russia. Fearful of the US' secondary sanctions, nearly all Chinese banks are refusing payment transfers from Russia. BI

 

๐Ÿšฉ Russiaโ€™s Bigger Shadow Fleet Helps Beat Oil Sanctions Bloomberg

 

๐ŸŒŽ Harris campaign's Google ads rewrite news headlines. The ads include links to real articles from the news outlets, but the headlines and supporting text have been altered to read as though the articles support the Harris campaign's objectives. Axios

 

๐ŸŒŽ Judge rejects Donald Trumpโ€™s latest demand to step aside from hush money criminal case. Itโ€™s the third time the judge has rejected such a request from lawyers for the current Republican nominee. AP

 

๐ŸŒŽ Hunter Biden asked U.S. embassy in Italy for help landing Burisma deal while Joe was VP. The revelation adds to evidence linking Hunter to violations of FARA through his work for Burisma and various business entities. ABC

 

๐ŸŒŽ SEC Charges OTC Link LLC with Failing to File SARs. OTC Link failed to adopt or implement reasonably designed AML policies to surveil transactions conducted through its ATSs for suspicious activity. SEC

 

๐ŸŒŽ U.S. eyes Iranian oil exports as threat of Israel attack grows. Tehran relies on shipments of crude to prop up its sanctions-stricken economy. Politico

 

๐ŸŒŽ Biden administration asks Supreme Court to revive terror victimsโ€™ suits against Palestinian Authority. At issue is whether victims can haul the PA and PLO into U.S. courts under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act. Hill

 

๐ŸŒŽ Oklahoma college students may have been drugged for trafficking, organs on Mexico vacation. They were on a Mexican vacation with their boyfriends when disaster struck. NYP

 

๐ŸŒŽ West hits pause on fresh measures against Venezuela's Maduro. U.S. and other Western countries are showing little sign of swift tough action over voting fraud. Reuters

 

๐ŸŒŽ Authorities sound alarm on 'gold bar scam' thatโ€™s swindled millions from seniors. Scammers pose as Treasury Department agents and instruct victims to convert their assets into gold bars for 'safekeeping.' Fox

IN THE NEWS

Russia & China

 

๐Ÿ“Œ Russian Businesses See Billions Stuck Abroad on Payment Delays Bloomberg

 

๐Ÿ“Œ China Traders Buy Bonds at Premium to Avoid Regulatory Curbs Bloomberg

 

๐Ÿ“Œ Russian broker oversees sale of $87M worth of frozen securities to foreign investors Reuters

 

๐Ÿ“Œ U.S. Army intelligence analyst pleads guilty to selling military secrets to China AP

 

๐Ÿ“Œ China probes rampant graft in funeral homes and services Reuters

 

๐Ÿ“Œ Russian hacking campaign targets rights groups, media, former US ambassador Cyberscoop

 

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Trafficking

 

๐Ÿšš California's most innovative pot companies are giving up on the legal market SFGATE

 

๐Ÿšš NYC migrant crisis costs will crack eye-popping $5B on shelters, security and food NYP

 

๐Ÿšš Germany, Italy import legally dubious Brazilian gold Reuters

 

๐Ÿšš Greece dismantles gang trafficking drugs from Europe to Israel on yachts Reuters

 

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Crypto & Cyber

 

๐Ÿ” Top 100 DeFi Hacks: Offchain attack vectors account for 57% of losses Cointelegraph

 

๐Ÿ” Six 0-Days Lead Microsoftโ€™s August 2024 Patch Push Krebs

 

๐Ÿ” How โ€˜Deepfake Elon Muskโ€™ Became the Internetโ€™s Biggest Scammer NYT

 

๐Ÿ” Texas sues GM for violating drivers' privacy Reuters

 

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Corruption & Financial Crime

 

๐Ÿ’ธ First Energy dodges criminal charges with $20M payout in sprawling corruption case AP

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Jury says Louisiana regulator is not liable for retireesโ€™ $400M in Stanford Ponzi losses AP

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Italian businessman arrested in Brazil in mafia investigation Reuters

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Pakistan's former spy chief arrested BBC

 

๐Ÿ’ธ Former Czech leaderโ€™s secret French estate listed for sale ICIJ

โ€œNo one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.โ€ --Plato

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