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🎯 Inside Hamas’ Pocketbook: Financing Terrorism Through Online Financial Platforms. Hamas has taken advantage of compliance loopholes to raise and launder funds with virtual impunity. GNET
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🌎 The Mexican Mafia Tapes: Secret recordings reveal greed, betrayal — and a deal with the feds. The cartel had proposed a trade: an unending supply of methamphetamine if the Mexican Mafia protected the cartel’s leaders in U.S. prisons. LAT
💥 Border Agents on High Alert for Attacks After Cartel Chief El Bola Captured Newsweek
🌎 Nigerian Court Postpones Decision on Gambaryan Bail Application. While in prison, Tigran has developed malaria, pneumonia, tonsillitis and complications from a herniated disc, which left him nearly unable to walk. CoinDesk
🌎 Crypto-friendly United Texas Bank faces cease and desist order from Federal Reserve. The central bank examined the Dallas bank in May 2023 and found shortfalls in its governance and oversight by its board of directors and senior management. Block
🌎 Canada Reviewing Request to Sanction Hikvision, Other Chinese Surveillance Companies. Canada is looking into an application to impose sanctions on the companies and potentially seize their assets over human-rights violations. WSJ
🌎 Biden administration announces major actions to tackle Russian efforts to influence 2024 election. Employees of RT were indicted for scheming to funnel $10M to set up a Tennessee-based front company. CNN
🚩 Treasury Takes Action Against Russia’s Foreign Malign Influence Operations OFAC
🌎 FBI's urgent new scam warning. James Barnacle, a top F.B.I. official, has a warning for Americans about new ways scam artists are targeting people, with a stunning amount of money lost every year. ABC
🌎 Leaked Disney Data Reveals Financial and Strategy Secrets. Data trove sheds light on operations, exposes personal data of some staff and customers. WSJ
🌎 Oregon hospital hit with $303M lawsuit after a nurse is accused of replacing fentanyl with tap water. Dani Marie Schofield was arrested in June and charged with 44 counts of second-degree assault. AP
🌎 House panel subpoenas Gov. Walz in investigation of Minnesota nonprofit that ran a Covid aid scheme. Feeding Our Future faces federal criminal charges that it created fake children's names to seek reimbursements for meals that were never served. NBC
🚩 ‘He Did Not Complete the Degree Program’: Tim Walz Claimed He Was ‘Nearly Finished’ With PhD Years After He Disappeared from University. Free Beacon
🌎 Chevron Wants the Oil to Keep Flowing in Venezuela After Disputed Election. Behind the scenes, the oil company’s message to the White House is that it needs to stay in Venezuela, even if Maduro remains. WSJ
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