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🎯 Indictment Mystery: Did Someone Spill About the Trump-McCarthy Jan. 6 Call? It’s one of the more intriguing mysteries about the new Trump indictment: Why are details about Trump’s call with McCarthy on Jan. 6 unsourced? Daily Beast
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🌎 U.S. prosecutors worry Binance charges could cause run on exchange. Federal prosecutors worry that if they indict Binance, it could cause a run on the exchange similar to the one that befell now bankrupt platform FTX. Semafor
🌎 IRS Visits to Wealthy Americans Drive Malta Pension Probe. One summons sought a wide range of records such as a list of all clients, including their name, social security number, address and phone number, and more. Bloomberg
🌎 Wall Street Reaped Ruble Fortune on Clients Fleeing From Russia. To pull it off, Wall Street firms turned to an obscure source with which they had rarely traded dollars before: lenders based in countries deemed “friendly” by Russia and not sanctioned by the US. Bloomberg
🌎 SEC Tells Wall Street Brokers to Clean Up Their Anti-Money-Laundering Controls. The SEC’s examinations unit issued a risk alert saying it had observed broker-dealers that weren’t putting enough resources or staffing into their AML programs. WSJ
🌎 Head of NYC anti-violence program busted in massive upstate gun, drug sweep. Cops raided his Yonkers home last week and allegedly found drugs, more than $165,000 in cash and two illegal guns. NY Post
🌎 DOJ arrests two drug trafficking groups in massive drug bust with $300K in cash, fentanyl-laced opioids. The three criminal complaints charge two separate drug trafficking organizations whose members supplied drugs to customers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio along with Chicago's South Side. Fox News
🌎 Accounting firms accused of ‘operating with impunity’ as regulator flags growing number of flawed audits. The U.S. regulator tasked with ensuring audit quality has found an uptick in deficiencies three years in a row. OCCRP
🌎 A Senator’s New Wife and Her Old Friends Draw Prosecutors’ Attention. Menendez, the 69-year-old Democratic chair of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, is under investigation by the Justice Department for the second time in less than a decade. NY Times
🌎 Iranian government 'using research partnerships to develop arms industry'. The UK government is being urged to crack down on university collaborations that allow Iran to acquire sensitive research through the back door. New Arab
🌎 SocGen reaches settlement with U.S. regulators over messaging probe. The Securities and Exchange Commission in 2021 began examining how Wall Street banks were keeping track of employees' digital communications. Reuters
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