SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez pleaded guilty Wednesday to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities say also involved a former FBI agent and a Venezuelan banker. Vázquez, an attorney, became the U.S. territory’s first former governor to plead guilty to a crime, specifically accepting a
You know what they say: crime doesn’t pay… but apparently, it litters. After five years on the run, an alleged cryptocurrency scammer in South Korea was finally caught. Not through high-tech police work or an international manhunt though, but because he tossed a cigarette butt near a train station in Seoul. Police originally stopped the man
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 20-year-old Palm Coast man linked to a massive cybercriminal gang was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to federal charges, including conspiracy and wire fraud, News 6 partner WJXT-TV reported. Despite federal prosecutors requesting eight years and the defense requesting five years for Noah Urban, a
Michael Lyle | Nevada Current Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is among 21 attorneys general who have joined a lawsuit to stop President Donald Trump from withholding billions of dollars in funding for resources for crime victims from states that don’t aid the administration’s mass deportation efforts. Nevada received about $24 million in funding from
Imagine your entire superannuation and life savings vanishing in one day — all because of one convincing video from social media. West Australians are increasingly being duped by celebrity and crypto cons, resulting in millions of dollars being stolen. New research by WA ScamNet revealed that almost 50 WA residents have fallen victim to investment
The ex-boyfriend of a prominent banking executive who was found dead in her Reseda home in 2021 was convicted Tuesday, Aug. 12, of beating and strangling her to death, authorities said. Anthony Duwayne Turner, 56, of Westchester was convicted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury of first-degree murder, forcible rape and burglary in the
The ex-boyfriend of a prominent banking executive who was found dead in her Reseda home in 2021 was convicted Tuesday, Aug. 12, of beating and strangling her to death, authorities said. Anthony Duwayne Turner, 56, of Westchester was convicted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury of first-degree murder, forcible rape and burglary in the
One of the crypto bros charged with torturing an Italian businessman in a SoHo house of horrors allegedly held his ex-fiancée captive — and threatened to kill her — months before his sensational Manhattan arrest, a new report reveals. John Woeltz – who was recently sprung from Rikers Island on a $1 million bond pending
Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine; Photos: TMZ/Backgrid, David ‘Dee’ Delgado/Reuters This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Earlier this year, word spread through the text chains of the insular group of men who own and operate high-end Manhattan nightclubs that two new whales
NEW YORK (AP) — A crypto investor charged with kidnapping an Italian man in a Manhattan townhouse for days in order to steal his Bitcoin was released Thursday on $1 million bond, according to prosecutors. John Woeltz was fitted with an electronic monitor and ordered to home confinement during an appearance in Manhattan criminal court,