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🎯 German sanctions officers raid Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s properties in Bavaria. In 2022, German police searched Usmanov's villa in the upmarket holiday town of Rottach-Egern on the shores of the Tegernsee. A court later deemed the raids unlawful. Reuters
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💥 US will transfer weapons seized from Iran to Ukraine. DOJ announced in March that it was seeking the forfeiture of 1M rounds of Iranian ammunition and thousands of proximity fuses for rocket-propelled grenades that the Navy seized from Iran as it was in transit to Yemen. CNN
💥 FTX Employees Found Alameda’s Secret Backdoor Months Before Collapse. Months before the collapse of FTX, some of its U.S.-based employees discovered the so-called backdoor that Alameda Research allegedly used to withdraw billions of dollars of customer funds from the cryptocurrency exchange. WSJ
💥 Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with few details outlining the construction in Starr County, Texas, which is part of a busy Border Patrol sector seeing “high illegal entry.” AP
💥 US Commerce head backs legislation to address TikTok, threats. Raimondo backed legislation introduced by Senators Mark Warner and John Thune called the Restrict Act that would authorize the Commerce Department to review or block a range of transactions involving foreign information and communications technology. Reuters
💥 Iraq Asked for $1 Billion in Cash. This Time, Washington Said No. The behind-the-scenes wrangling highlights Baghdad’s unique dependence on the dollar and the little-known system for supplying it with prized U.S. currency. WSJ
💥 US to give credit to firms that disclose misconduct of companies they buy. To get credit, companies must disclose the misconduct discovered at the other firm within six months of the deal closing, and they will have one year from closing to fully remediate. Reuters
💥 Inside the Menendez Indictment: A Mercedes and a Secretive Fatal Crash. What happened that night in the borough of Bogota outside New York City was not reported for years, leaving witnesses and Koop’s family to wonder if the fatal collision was deliberately kept quiet. NYT
💥 Guyana contractor in US probe leaves $300M Exxon shore base project. Nazar Mohamed and his son Azruddin, owners of Mohamed’s Enterprise, face a criminal probe by U.S. law enforcement agencies into alleged money laundering, drug trafficking and gold smuggling. Reuters
💥 Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears. The government generally uses the terms domestic terrorism and domestic violent extremism interdependently, though there are subtle differences, the most important being that terrorism is statutorily defined and extremism avoids the label of terrorist. Newsweek
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