Bitcoin, NYC and cryptocurrency
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The new suspect surrendered to detectives at the 13th Precinct stationhouse Tuesday morning and is being questioned with charges pending.
William Duplessie is expected to face kidnapping and false imprisonment charges, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
The second suspect in the SoHo crypto torture case has surrendered and now faces charges including kidnapping and assault.
A cryptocurrency investor accused of kidnapping and torture in New York City formerly served on the board of a nonprofit organization in Paducah, the group’s executive director
It is important to be vigilant in security, where you travel, how you travel and who in the organization has access to these wallets," George S. Georgiades, general counsel at Borderless.xyz, said about discussions the general counsel community is having with their clients.
The Kentucky-based cryptocurrency investor accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian businessman in a sadistic attempt to extort his Bitcoin password was ordered held without bail Saturday by a Manhattan judge.
Many remember May 22, 2010 as Bitcoin Pizza Day, but Laszlo Hanyecz actually spent nearly 80,000 bitcoin that year — a sum worth over $8.7 billion today.