July 4, 2025

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Crypto

Scheme to Take Torture Victim’s Crypto Went Back Months, Prosecutors Say

For months, two cryptocurrency investors pressured their longtime friend to hand over his electronic devices and the passkey to a crypto account worth millions of dollars, according to prosecutors and an internal police report. The investors, John Woeltz and William Duplessie, asked the man to meet three different times. At the first meeting, outside Manhattan,

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Crypto

Cryptocurrency Seems Futuristic. The Crimes Around It Are Not.

This was raw, gangland violence — adjacent to Little Italy, no less — playing out against the purported and inscrutable sophistication of the cryptocurrency markets. Increasingly, it seemed, the “Matrix”-y, clean-room culture of digital finance was falling prey to a lurid, visceral, old-fashioned style of criminality. In recent months, the French have witnessed a series

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Loans

FSA to require DOGE approval for larger loans

Ryan Hanrahan  |  Farmers’ Advance ‘May Day’ protests push back against Trump administration policies “May Day” protesters across the U.S. rallied against President Donald Trump’s policies and billionaire Elon Musk’s influence over the White House. Reuters’ Leah Douglas and P.J. Huffstutter reported that “farm loan employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency will

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Loans

Government shutdown and services that would be reduced or closed

Chuck Schumer to vote to advance GOP funding bill Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer says he will vote for the GOP funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. The Senate will vote on a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown. Democrats may vote against the bill in protest of President Trump’s policies. If the

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