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Noid

Noid

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Deport these billion dollar fraudsters to Vietnam for a DEATH sentence.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lifer
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Can you hide if you run?

www.justice.gov

Early Bitcoin Investor Charged with Tax Fraud

An indictment was unsealed charging Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoins, with mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Ver was arrested this weekend in Spain based on the U.S. criminal charges. The United States will seek Ver’s extradition to stand trial in the United States.
www.justice.gov www.justice.gov
 
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igor_kavinski

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A question: if you are involved in a crime but you revoke your citizenship before the crime comes to light, can the US authorities still extradite you?
 
VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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What does your citizenship have to do with their authority? What matters is the citizenship of the victims in question, the location that the alleged crime(s) have occurred, and the legal authority of those jurisdiction(s) including extradition treaties.
 
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Brainonska511

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igor_kavinski said:
A question: if you are involved in a crime but you revoke your citizenship before the crime comes to light, can the US authorities still extradite you?
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Extradition is not dependent on someone being a citizen or not. For example, Assange was extradited and he wasn't a US citizen.

Giving up your citizenship is not some magical get out of jail card.
 
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Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

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"Customers and creditors that claim $50,000 or less will get about 118% of their claim, according to the plan, which was filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. This covers about 98% of FTX customers."

apnews.com

FTX will return money to most customers less than 2 years after catastrophic crypto collapse

FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that.
apnews.com apnews.com



I guess the little guys aren't being cut out.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lifer
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Yup, real safe and secure. Article kind of dances around what they did, but apparentb ly a basic series of web searches tripped them up.

May 15 (UPI) -- The Justice Department on Wednesday revealed it indicted two brothers in their twenties for a series of alleged crimes for manipulating the cryptocurrency market to steal $25 million in crypto in a 12-second period, according to reports.

Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of Boston, Mass., and his brother James Peraire-Bueno, 28, of New York were arrested Monday in their respective cities and are being charged for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering,

"This alleged scheme was novel and has never before been charged," Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District, said in a news release.


www.upi.com

DOJ: $25 million in crypto allegedly stolen by 2 brothers in 12 seconds - UPI.com

The Justice Department on Wednesday revealed it indicted two brothers in their twenties for a series of alleged crimes for manipulating the cryptocurrency market to steal $25 million in crypto in a 12 second period.
www.upi.com www.upi.com
 
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DrMrLordX

DrMrLordX

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Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Yup, real safe and secure. Article kind of dances around what they did, but apparentb ly a basic series of web searches tripped them up.
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They abused MEV frontrunner bots.

www.halborn.com

Explained: The MEV Bots Hack (April 2023)

In April 2023, MEV bots were exploited by an Ethereum validator for $25M. Halborn explains what happened.
www.halborn.com www.halborn.com

I have nothing but contempt for the bot operators. How they can operate MEV bots legally while these two get charged for going after frontrunner bots boggles the mind. Maybe there's something I'm missing here.
 
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VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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YT short, think it was referring to the "MEV hack", not that the block-chain was brute-forced. *or was it? I haven't read the full run-down articles.
 
AdamK47

AdamK47

Lifer
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The state of Target stores in San Francisco say a lot about the people and the politics of the region.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lifer
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Another cagey cryptocrat caged:

Ryan Salame, part of the 'inner circle' at collapsed crypto exchange FTX, sentenced to prison​

abcnews.go.com.ico
ABC News|8 hours ago
A federal judge has sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed ...
 
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Noid

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I got a unusual Email ( scanned by gmail ) that stated I received BTC to my PayPal account, with a PDF receipt.

1. Didn't know PayPal is accepting crypto.
2. Notified Gmail of phishing.
3. This Gmail account was pristine until now.
( about 20+ yrs - I'm guessing a corporate data breach is the culprit. )
4. This Email looked legit - PayPal logos included.
 
T

Train

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www.bing.com
Noid said:
I got a unusual Email ( scanned by gmail ) that stated I received BTC to my PayPal account, with a PDF receipt.

1. Didn't know PayPal is accepting crypto.
2. Notified Gmail of phishing.
3. This Gmail account was pristine until now.
( about 20+ yrs - I'm guessing a corporate data breach is the culprit. )
4. This Email looked legit - PayPal logos included.
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Paypal started accepting Crypto in 2021
 
DrMrLordX

DrMrLordX

Lifer
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Noid said:
I got a unusual Email ( scanned by gmail ) that stated I received BTC to my PayPal account, with a PDF receipt.

1. Didn't know PayPal is accepting crypto.
2. Notified Gmail of phishing.
3. This Gmail account was pristine until now.
( about 20+ yrs - I'm guessing a corporate data breach is the culprit. )
4. This Email looked legit - PayPal logos included.
Click to expand...

Do you have a PayPal account associated with that email address?
 
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