Whoops: DEA Falls for Crypto Scam, Hands Fraudster $55,000 in Stolen Funds

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The same federal agency that once helped bring down the biggest crypto-based dark web drug marketplace Silk Road got swindled by one of the oldest tricks in the crypto scammer playbook. The U.S.

2,000 barnacle-covered wine bottles worth hundreds of thousands of dollars destroyed after California company illegally aged them in the ocean

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More document trouble looms for Trump, this time over missing evidence in his New York fraud trial

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Donald Trump speaking at the NRA convention in Houston, TX, on May 27, 2022. New York Attorney General Letitia James, right, speaks in Washington, DC on Nov. 12, 2019.

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A man returned home to find a new $1.5 million house on land he acquired decades ago. Now he's suing for $2 million.

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Dr. Daniel Kenigsberg said he returned to his hometown to find a new house on property he owned. After researching it, he concluded it had been fraudulently sold in 2022, per CTInsider.

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8 people charged with stealing 19 rental cars worth $1.1 million in an identity fraud scheme

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The suspects reserved rental cars using stolen credit card information and false identities, per an indictment.

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One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.

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A recycling technician loads an 800 pound block of compressed aluminum cans at OCC Recycling Center in Costa Mesa, CA on Thursday, July 14, 2022.

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7,400 student-loan borrowers hurt by a school's 'widespread misconduct' are getting $130 million in debt wiped out, Biden's Education Department says

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The case against serial liar George Santos is a slam dunk, legal experts say

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Rep. George Santos, R-NY, leaving a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill.
Rep. George Santos, R-NY, leaving a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill.

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Elizabeth Holmes ‘giggles’ about the infamously deep voice she once used — and even her partner mocks it

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Elizabeth Holmes now speaks in an "unremarkable" voice The New York Times said.

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Elizabeth Holmes went to Burning Man, torched an effigy for Theranos, then spent 6 months living in an RV while prosecutors built a case against her for fraudulent business practices

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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 18: Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on November 18, 2022 in San Jose, California. Holmes appeared in federal court for sentencing after being convicted of four counts of fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors in her company Theranos, which offered blood testing lab services.
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