The ‘one pill can kill’ synthetic opioid is 50 times more powerful than heroin and is fuelling an overdose crisis
In the basement of an apartment complex in Inglewood, Los Angeles, a metallic hum rings out as high-speed pill-pressing machines pump out thousands of tablets an hour, each laced with a deadly synthetic opioid.
The drugs are ready to be packaged and sold in their millions to customers across America through the dark web.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will released on $250 million bail in a deal designed by federal prosecutors and Bankman-Fried’s defense attorneys, a New York federal judge ruled.
Judge Gabriel Gorenstein said that Bankman-Fried would require “strict” supervision following his release to his parents home in California.
Gotta wonder how much cash is hidden offshore.
The ex-girlfriend of disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried and a co-founder of FTX pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and are both cooperating with federal prosecutors, officials announced Wednesday night.
Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Bankman-Fried’s crypto hedge fund company Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, a co-founder of FTX, pleaded guilty to the criminal offenses before Bankman-Fried landed in New York to face his own charges, Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
The charges filed against the pair were “in connection with their roles in the frauds that contributed to FTX’s collapse,” Williams said.
Weak platitudes and woke diversions won’t save our great city from sinking deeper into the muck
I’ll say this for John Tory: He’s consistent.
“UNACCEPTABLE,” the mayor says of the swarming murder that has shocked his city to its core.
I suspect Toronto is fast reaching its “Diversity” tipping point.
Our “leaders” will do nothing to reverse this.
Get out while you can.
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried completed his extradition paperwork Wednesday and is set to be transported from the Bahamas to the US, where he will face a slew of criminal charges over allegations he defrauded $1.8bn from investors.
The fallen crypto king said he consented to extradition because he wants “to make the relevant customers whole,” according to court papers — a turnaround after he had initially said he would fight the process.
More than 100 bitcoins previously held in inaccessible virtual wallets linked to defunct cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX have been transferred four years after the death of the company’s founder led to its collapse.
It is not clear who moved the 104 bitcoins this month, worth approximately $2.4-million, nor how anyone could do so. Bankruptcy trustee Ernst & Young Inc. said in 2019 that it was not able to access the wallets, meaning the funds could not be recovered to help compensate users who lost money when the exchange went out of business.
Idaho police are investigating a white Hyundai Elantra found abandoned in Oregon for a possible link to the unsolved slayings of four college students last month.
Aware that Moscow, Idaho, officials were on the lookout for a vehicle fitting that description, Eugene police called the department to alert them to the car, which was badly damaged and had no license plates.
Idaho police have appealed for help finding a white 2011-2013 model Elantra seen in the “immediate area” of the off-campus home where the friends were stabbed to death in the early hours of Nov. 13
Eight teenage girls, some as young as 13 years old, have been charged in connection with a “swarming” attack in downtown Toronto that left a man dead on Sunday.
Toronto police said it happened in the area of York Street and University Avenue at around 12:17 a.m.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Det. Sgt. Terry Browne from the homicide unit said paramedics were flagged down by a group of individuals in the area and notified them about a man that had been assaulted.
The girlfriend of disgraced FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried reportedly cooperated with federal officials, it was revealed, shortly after he was arrested in the Bahamas in connection with the collapse of his crypto empire.
Former U.S. attorney Marc Litt, who was involved in prosecuting Bernie Madoff, joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” Sunday to discuss the report alleging Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison worked with officials in relation to the charges.
“It wouldn’t surprise me at all,” Litt told Will Cain regarding the report. “She was the CEO of a company that seems to be intimately involved in the alleged fraud, and she’s… in the cross-hairs of the government… and she’s got a choice to make.”
Federal prosecutors investigating the collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried have reached out to Democratic and Republican campaigns and organizations for information on political donations the company founder and two former executives made, according to a report.
Five people have been shot and killed in a residential unit in the Greater Toronto Area before the gunman was killed by police, authorities have said.
Police were called to a residential building in Vaughan, north of Toronto, at about 7.20pm on Sunday to reports of an active male shooter who had shot several victims at a condo in in the Ontario city.
Mass shootings are rare in Canada and Toronto has long prided itself as being one of the safest big cities in the world.
More … 6 dead, including suspect, after shooting at Vaughan condo building: York police chief
The Sun has a likely motive… also being discussed on Reddit = “Old Italian Guy Mad At Condo Board” – Sources told the Toronto Sun police are investigating multiple shooting scenes at a condo building and are working on a theory that an individual went from unit to unit, attacking six members of the condo board. One of the victims was hospitalized and is expected to survive.
At first glance, Sam Bankman-Fried bears little resemblance to Bernie Madoff. One is a smartly-suited, grey-haired financial titan with a 40-year career on Wall Street, and the other a 30-year-old millennial king of crypto in shorts and T-shirt.
But almost 14 years to the day since Madoff was arrested and charged with fraud in New York for orchestrating a long-running pyramid scheme, the FTX crypto scandal is being compared to Madoff’s criminal enterprise.
Diana Henriques, a financial historian and the author of The Wizard of Lies, a book delving into Madoff’s $64bn (£53bn) scheme, says the similarities between Bankman-Fried – or SBF as he is known – and the Wall Street investment manager are “striking”.
In case you missed it … Sam Bankman-Fried reverses decision to fight extradition to US
An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein claimed in newly unsealed emails that she had copies of blackmail videos that the deceased financier took of his associates.
Sarah Ransome made the claims in emails that were unsealed on Monday alongside other documents connected to Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 lawsuit against former Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as details about Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation continue to trickle out.
Kaylee Goncalves and Maddie Mogen, both 21, appeared on newly disclosed surveillance video that was purportedly taken on the morning of Nov. 13 in downtown Moscow, Idaho, according to Fox News.
The victims were wearing the same clothes they were seen in while patronizing a food truck on a Twitch livestream hours before they were murdered. They also reportedly appeared to be with the same man they were seen at the food truck with, who police have said is not a suspect.
The footage, which was reportedly provided to the outlet by the administrators of a Facebook group called “University of Idaho Murders – Case Discussion,” also contained audio.
As revelations emerge about the vast scope of the FTX debacle, the inevitable comparisons are being made between its disgraced chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried and legendary Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff.
To be sure, both scoundrels were adept at parting fools and their money – lots of it. But Mr. Madoff’s victims might elicit some sympathy for being taken in by his carefully crafted façade of respectability. Mr. Bankman-Fried’s willing dupes should get no such leniency. They should have seen trouble coming.
Mr. Bankman-Fried’s venture had more red flags than a Beijing military parade, the biggest one being that head office in the Bahamas. There is perhaps no redder flag than a corporate headquarters in a sketchy tax haven with a long history of dirty dealing that has been called out by global watchdogs.
