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Tottenham owner Joe Lewis indicted in the US for ‘brazen insider trading scheme’

The billionaire bought a controlling stake in the club in 2001 for £22 million.

The Independent UK

Police officer indicted after allegedly using stun gun seven times on handcuffed man

Prosecutors announced that the man put in handcuffs was facing a mental crisis and was being involuntarily taken for medical treatment

The Independent UK

Editorial: Finally Fed up on Rikers: As two advisory groups fail, US attorney says enough

Add Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams to the list of those who demand that the federal courts appoint a receiver to run Rikers Island. That was his conclusion on Monday, as the problems at the city jail keep piling up.

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US attorney in Manhattan seeking federal takeover of city's troubled Rikers Island jail complex

A federal prosecutor says his office will seek to have control of New York City’s trouble-plagued Rikers Island jail complex taken away from Mayor Eric Adam’s administration in favor of a court-appointed outside authority

The Independent UK

Democrats call for probe into whether ‘whistleblower’ Gal Luft made claims about Biden to help China

Reps Jamie Raskin and Daniel Goldman want the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee to probe whether an accused foreign agent has been manipulating the panel in service of Chinese interests

The Independent UK

Investors in Donald Trump’s Truth Social media company hit with insider trading charges

NEW YORK — Three investors in Donald Trump’s media company were hit with insider trading charges Thursday, accused of reaping $22 million in illegal profits based on confidential information they told friends about on a gambling vacation.

Tribune News Service

Self-professed 'Wolf of Airbnb' pleads guilty to wire fraud for defrauding landlords

A Florida man who dubbed himself the “Wolf of Airbnb” has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge for defrauding landlords and cheating a government pandemic program

The Independent UK

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Former NFL minority owner jailed after defrauding pro league in $700 cryptocurrency scam

A million dollar cryptocurrency scam of a now-defunct pro football league has resulted in a prison sentence for a former owner of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings

Daily Mirror

Former Vikings part owner sentenced to 6 years in cryptocurrency scam

After defrauding the Alliance of American Football League, former Vikings part owner Reggie Fowler was sentenced to more than 6 years in prison.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Ex-part owner of Minnesota Vikings gets over six years in cryptocurrency scam

A former Minnesota Vikings part owner who defrauded a short-lived professional football league while carrying out a $700 million cryptocurrency scam has been sentenced to over six years in prison

The Independent UK

US takes action against Mexican cartel, Chinese firms to stem fentanyl trafficking

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials announced actions Friday to combat fentanyl as the nation struggles to battle overdose deaths, including charges against members of a Mexican drug cartel that authorities say is behind the drug’s largest trafficking operation on the globe.

Tribune News Service

US announces charges, sanctions in fight to stem fentanyl trafficking - Roll Call

U.S. officials announced actions Friday to combat fentanyl as the nation struggles to battle overdose deaths.

Roll Call

Ex-New York suburban officer convicted in killing of 4

A former New York suburban police officer turned drug dealer has been convicted in the strangulation death of one man and the execution-style murders of three others

The Independent UK

Drug dealer admits supplying fentanyl-laced heroin to The Wire actor Michael K Williams before fatal overdose

A drug dealer pleaded guilty yesterday to providing “The Wire” actor Michael K. Williams with fentanyl-laced heroin that led to his death.

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Drug dealer pleads guilty in death of ‘Wire’ actor Michael K. Williams

Irvin Cartagena, 39, signed a plea agreement with prosecutors stipulating that the mix of heroin and fentanyl he sold Williams resulted in the actor’s death.

Daily Mirror

FBI agents break into wrong hotel room and arrest Delta pilot during training exercise

The pilot had been staying the Revere Hotel in Boston, US, and was woken by FBI agents who barged in, handcuffed him and interrogated him for 45 minutes before the officers realised the mistake

The Independent UK

Dealer pleads guilty in death of actor Michael K. Williams

A New York City drug dealer has pleaded guilty to providing “The Wire” actor Michael K

Tribune News Service

Exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui charged with billion-dollar fraud in US

Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, the exiled businessman and vocal critic of Beijing with ties to former President Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon, was charged with fraud after the U.S. seized $634 million linked to his alleged crimes.

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U.S. arrests a Chinese business tycoon in a $1 billion fraud conspiracy

Guo Wengui, long sought by the government of China and known for cultivating ties to Trump administration figures including Steve Bannon, was arrested on charges that he oversaw a fraud conspiracy.

The Independent UK

Chinese businessman arrested in $1 billion fraud conspiracy

A self-exiled Chinese businessman has been arrested in New York on charges alleging that he oversaw a $1 billion fraud conspiracy

The Guardian - US

Chinese business tycoon and Bannon ally Guo Wengui arrested in $1bn fraud conspiracy

US attorney says Wengui, also known as Miles Guo and Ho Wan Kwok, used stolen money to buy a $3.5m Ferrari and finance a $37m yacht

Tribune News Service

White supremacist US soldier who plotted to kill members of his platoon sentenced to 45 years in prison

NEW YORK — A former U.S. Army soldier and self-declared traitor who plotted to kill members of his overseas platoon was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Friday — with a judge calling his bigoted beliefs “repugnant” and his regret implausible.

Los Angeles Times

Calif. chiropractor who bilked the NBA's health plan sentenced to prison

LOS ANGELES — They called him Dr. Pat, and from his nondescript office building along Ventura Boulevard, chiropractor Patrick Khaziran seemed to have found a lucrative niche treating celebrity clients.

The Independent UK

Florida woman accused of scamming Holocaust survivor out of $2.8m in dating site fraud

Ms Stergo allegedly used the money to finance expensive vacations and purchase a cars, a boat, and a house in a gated community

The Guardian - US

Sam Bankman-Fried claims ‘I didn’t steal funds’ in first response to FTX case

Disgraced cryptocurrency boss says FTX customers could get their money back in statement published on Substack

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