A Toronto man has lost $12,000 to a cryptocurrency scam that involved a “deepfake” video of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a mistake that he says has robbed him of his life savings.
Stephen Henry saw a YouTube video last November that he thought was real because it appeared to be endorsed by the Liberal leader.
“I thought, ‘It’s got to be legitimate, it’s got to be perfect. If not, how could you get the prime minister?’ So I thought, ‘It’s got to be official,” Mr. Henry told CTV.
48 stolen vehicles seized, 150 charges laid in Toronto police investigations
Officers say 48 vehicles with a combined value of just under $4 million were recently seized as part of an undercover Toronto police investigation focused on the trafficking, shipping, and re-vinning of stolen vehicles.
Speaking at a news conference in Toronto on Wednesday, police provided details on two separate but related undercover investigations, dubbed Project Spectre and Project Paranoid.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs says he’s the victim of a ‘witch hunt’ and bemoans ‘military-level force’ used against him as he finally spoke out following the Monday double raid on his estates.
Aaron Dyer, an attorney for the rapper, broke Combs’ silence just over 24 hours after the Homeland Security investigation with a statement to DailyMail.com.
‘Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level force as search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs’ residences. There is no excuse for the excessive show of force and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way his children and employees were treated,’ Dyer said.
An undercover Toronto police officer is sticking to his evidence about what he saw when Const. Jeffrey Northrup was fatally run over in an underground parking garage at Nathan Phillips Square.
In a Toronto court on Tuesday, defence lawyer Nader Hasan referred to grainy, poor-quality surveillance video to challenge Const. Scharnil Pais’s testimony that he witnessed Umar Zameer drive his vehicle toward a standing Northrup on July 2, 2021.
This is interesting, while the perp is guilty he may get off or receive a light sentence.
Saw an undercover TPS pick-up truck issuing a traffic ticket recently for the 1st time. All black or very deep dark brown in colour.
Diddy’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided Monday as part of a federal sex trafficking investigation, according to Fox News.
The raid was made by Homeland Security Investigations in the Holmby Hills area of the city, according to Fox, who said it had witnessed federal agents going into the home.
The network also cited sources saying a Miami home owned by record label boss Diddy – real name Sean Combs – was also raided Monday.
NOW – Federal agents have raided the home of American rapper and record producer Sean "Diddy" Combs.pic.twitter.com/Ddrem9srGh
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 25, 2024
🚨#BREAKING: Sean Diddy Combs has fled the United States on his Gulfstream private jet⁰⁰📌#Unitedstates | #USA ⁰⁰American rapper Diddy has reportedly left the United States on his private jet, a Gulfstream G550 N1969 / SIS69 which took off earlier today from Van Nuys Airport… pic.twitter.com/ChkKWnzB7u
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 26, 2024
All criminal charges have been dropped against three Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers who were accused in a deadly police shooting that killed a father and toddler in Kawartha Lakes, Ont.
The incident happened on Nov. 26, 2020, when a child abduction was reported to police, later ending with the fatal shooting of both 18-month-old Jameson Shapiro and his 33-year-old father William Shapiro. Jameson was found dead at the scene, while his father was taken to hospital and died on Dec. 2. The shooting also left an OPP officer seriously injured.
With car thefts at an all-time high in Toronto, some people are resorting to installing retractable bollards in their driveways — vertical posts to physically prevent their vehicles from being stolen.
The increase in retail thefts has forced companies and businesses to rethink their security measures.
The LCBO’s latest attempt to stop crime comes in the form of a “resource protection team,” complete with vehicles that it hopes will serve as a deterrent for wannabe thieves.
In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on the morning of 28 March, tech wunderkind turned fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, unrepentant even after trial and conviction, will finally learn his fate.
Bankman-Fried, who founded the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was found guilty on 2 November 2023 of seven counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money.
The fallen bitcoin booster was found to have siphoned billions in customer funds into FTX’s sister hedge fund, Alameda Research, to keep it solvent – and lined his pockets with hapless clients’ money, spurring the entities’ collapse.
The judge is no fan of SBF or his lawyers repeatedly slapping both down for SBF’s evasive testimony and the lawyers time wasting efforts.
Given his connections to the Democrats even if he receives a long sentence this week I would not be surprised to see him “pardoned” after only a few years.
The rampage of John Robichaud, the Boston underworld’s version of Michael Myers
I could do the rest of my time on Block 10 standing on my head!” he hollered at the deputy superintendent of Walpole State Prison after a hearing didn’t go his way. “How do you think you’re going to straighten me out—you fuckin’ knob-head guinea!” He’d target every authority figure he could—“From now on, you better keep your right up!” Especially the guards—“Why don’t you resign like Angus did? You’re yellow just like him, I scared him, and now you’re scared!” He threw his urine and stools at them so often that they wore raincoats during their rounds.
FTX CEO: “The harm was vast. The remorse is nonexistent.”
The CEO of FTX Trading, John Ray, sent a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan Wednesday to correct what he called “callously” and “demonstrably false” claims that disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried made in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence for crimes including defrauding FTX customers.
In a sentencing memo, Bankman-Fried asked the court to drastically slash his prison sentence from what he considered a “grotesque” 110-year maximum to five to six years. Prosecutors have suggested the sentence should be between 40 and 50 years, but Bankman-Fried claimed such a sentence painted him as a “depraved supervillain,” Bloomberg reported.
The lightest sentence was appropriate, Bankman-Fried claimed, because the “most reasonable estimate of loss” and “harm” to customers, lenders, and investors is “zero.”
The Canadian experiment in free-range, low-consequence crime has failed miserably. It’s time for its enablers — the bleeding-heart politicians, judges and non-profit operators who insist on forcing the Canadian population to bear the burden of criminality — to call it off.
I hold just the tiniest bit of pity for Toronto Police Constable Marco Ricciardi, who sounded like he just wanted to be helpful when he made international headlines for his advice at a town hall on how to prevent violence during home invasions: leave your car keys by the front door. “They’re breaking into your home to steal your car,” he said in February. “They don’t want anything else.”
This is the type of realpolitik advice that no one wants to hear, but many quietly take to heart anyway. Indeed, women don’t want to be told they should stagger their keys between their fingers when walking home alone at night – they want to be able to take a walk without worrying about getting attacked – but many fish their keys out of their purse anyway, just in case.
In Los Angeles, a task force of detectives is battling organized retail theft, in which boosted goods often end up for sale online—or commingled on store shelves with legitimate items.
A dozen detectives from the California Highway Patrol gathered in a Los Angeles-area parking lot the other morning for an operational briefing. In about twenty minutes, they would drive to a nearby Home Depot, where customers were known to regularly wheel carts of merchandise out the door without paying, and to stick power tools down their pants. The investigators had planned a nightlong “blitz”—surveillance, arrest, repeat. Anyone caught stealing would be handcuffed, led to a back room, and questioned: What did you plan to do with these items? Did you take them on behalf of someone else? The goal was not to micro-police shoplifting but to discover and disrupt networks engaged in organized retail crime, a burgeoning area of criminal investigation.
When it comes to skyrocketing auto theft across Canada—double-digit percentage increases more frequently tied to carjackings and breaking into homes in search of keys—recent frank personal safety advice from the Toronto Police Service has sent a clear and unfortunate message to Canadians: You are on your own.
