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🎯 Morgan Stanley Fined Over First Republic Insider Sales. The investigation identified several breakdowns across different teams in the wealth management department tasked with approving trades. WSJ
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🌎 Succession: The Secret Lives of Vladimir Putin’s Sons. These children cannot be found in state databases; since infancy, they’ve had cover documents typically made for spies. Dossier
🌎 Chiefs superfan ‘ChiefsAholic’ sentenced to 17.5 years for string of armed bank robberies. Babudar pleaded guilty to bank robbery, money laundering, and transporting stolen property across state lines. ESPN
🚩 Feds flag Chicago business magnate over tax fraud involving NFL players Chicago Tribune
🌎 Secretive Cyprus-Registered Funds Were Used to Hide Megayachts and Luxury Real Estate Linked to Sanctioned Russian Banker. Two megayachts linked to Andrei Kostin were hidden behind secretive investment funds in Cyprus, known as “registered alternative investment funds.” OCCRP
🌎 Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team. Unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency has branched out into brazen hacking operations with targets across the world. Wired
🔐 NSA, FBI, CISA, and Allies Issue Advisory about Russian Military Cyber Actors NSA
🌎 U.S. Tells Allies Iran Has Sent Ballistic Missiles to Russia. The move comes as Russia steps up missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, killing dozens of civilians in recent days. WSJ
📕 Featured Report: Russia’s Cryptocurrency Pivot – Legislated Sanctions Evasion Chainalysis
🌎 Louis Vuitton clothes and Vegas hotels: Border agents spent big with money from Mexican cartels. Garcia and another border officer helped a drug cartel move huge amounts of drugs across the border. LAT
🌎 Feds raid home of NYPD Commish Edward Caban. Federal agents hit members of the nation’s biggest police force amid a stunning spate of raids on others in Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle. NYP
🌎 How China and North Korea Are Saving Russia's Military Machine From Grinding to a Halt. Data shows Beijing exporting $300M per month in dual-use items to Moscow. Free Beacon
🌎 U.S. introduces new export curbs on advanced technology. Besides quantum computing items, the curbs affect equipment for producing advanced semiconductors, additive manufacturing items to produce metal components, and more. CNN
📌 Japanese chip equipment firms count on China sales amid U.S. moves to block exports CNBC
📌 Netherlands takes on U.S. export controls, shipments of ASML machines CNBC
🌎 An American Church Thrived in Nicaragua. Then Its Pastors Went to Prison. Evangelical pastors led by a Texas missionary were accused of money laundering in a widespread crackdown on religious groups. NYT
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