Columbus, OH

Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, are accused in a new class action lawsuit of facilitating money laundering, which could potentially fall under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Despite recent fines totaling $4.3 billion paid to the Department of Justice and jail time for Zhao, the...

Legal Turmoil Continues for Binance as New Money Laundering Allegations Emerge

Seattle, WA

Cryptocurrency giant Binance and former CEO Changpeng Zhao have been slapped with a new class action lawsuit that alleges consumer harm due to the exchange's money-laundering activities in a Seattle federal court. The class action lawsuit accuses the defendants of putting profits before the law since they allegedly generated substantial...

Ex-Binance CEO CZ Facing New Lawsuit: Details

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nigeria’s securities watchdog plans to issue its first license to a digital asset firm later this month, marking a complete turnaround from the government’s previously hostile stance this year. In an interview this week, Director-General Emomotimi Agama told Bloomberg that the Securities...

Nigeria’s SEC to issue first VASP license this month: report

CoinDesk

Worldcoin is currently collecting data of individuals with its Orb device in 25 locations of the Latin American country.

Sam Altman's Worldcoin Violated Data Policies, Colombia Regulator Says

Binance and its former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao are facing a new class-action lawsuit from three crypto investors who say they couldn’t recover their stolen assets because the exchange failed to prevent money laundering. In an Aug. 16 class-action suit filed in the United States District Court...

CZ and Binance face new lawsuit for alleged laundering of stolen crypto

Fox Business

The Justice Department claims TikTok is collecting data on U.S. users and their views on social issues like gun control and abortion to send to engineers in China.

Justice Department accuses TikTok of gathering American user data on social issues like abortion, gun control

California State

Fox News

California attorney Lisa Bloom, her husband, and their firm agreed to a settlement following allegations of misuse of COVID-19 relief funds.

California attorney Lisa Bloom, husband, settle over misuse of COVID relief fund allegations

(Reuters) - A former federal prosecutor with experience overseeing efforts to address systemic sexual harassment and discrimination will monitor progress toward the "cultural transformation" of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the bank regulator announced Wednesday. The appointment of Carrie Cohen, currently of the corporate law firm Morrison Foerster, is...

US Bank Regulator Taps Ex-Prosecutor to Oversee 'Cultural Transformation'

POLITICO

In a 5-4 ruling, the justices kept in place lower court rulings preventing the Title IX rule from being implemented.

Supreme Court declines to lift blocks on Biden administration’s education anti-discrimination rule

Georgia State

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Atlanta, GA

Daily Coffee Press

A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to over 28 years in prison for distributing significant amounts of fentanyl and other controlled substances to dealers in the Middle Georgia region. Authorities revealed that investigators uncovered evidence linking the drugs provided by the defendant, 40-year-old Lagary Williams, also known as "Frog," from Atlanta, to a fatal overdose.

Atlanta Man Sentenced to 28 Years for Supplying Deadly Fentanyl Linked to Fatal Overdose

Douglas, GA

Last week, a 32-year-old was arrested on trafficking charges after allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop and abandoning the vehicle with a child in the passenger seat. The chase resulted in the discovery of 230 grams of methamphetamine, which the suspect allegedly threw out while fleeing on foot. According to local detectives, the vehicle the suspect was driving was registered to NFL football player Tyreek Hill.

Man Driving Vehicle Registered to Tyreek Hill Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges in Douglas

Nevada State

A relatively new Russian-speaking ransomware group is looking for targets in the healthcare sector and claims to have stolen sensitive patient information in recent attacks on at least two medical care providers in New York and Nevada. The Everest ransomware group has been active since 2020, engaging in data extortion...

US Authorities Warn Health Sector of Everest Gang Threats

New York State

The Hill

New York state lawyers are urging an appeals court to uphold a multimillion-dollar civil fraud judgment against former President Trump, contending that “overwhelming evidence” backs up a state judge’s finding that he conspired to alter his net worth for tax and insurance benefits. In a late Wednesday filing, New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office…

NY state presses court to uphold Trump civil fraud judgment

Appling County, GA

A 40-year-old man from Appling County, Christopher Eric Stone, with a significant criminal history, was recently sentenced to over five years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, according to officials from the Department of Justice.

Georgia Man Sentenced to Over 5 Years for in Federal Prison for Meth Distribution

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Florida State

Details are emerging about a data breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. According to a KrebsonSecurity.com another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently...

Report: Security Breach at Fla Based Data Co Spreads Fears as Hundreds of Millions of Records are Dumped Online

New Jersey State

New Brunswick, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. -A Middlesex County man, Kenneth Strickland, 57Kenneth Strickland, 57, from New Brunswick, has been convicted of his involvement in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and heroin. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced that Strickland was found guilty on July 29, 2024, of all six counts in a superseding indictment.

NJ Man Convicted in Large-Scale Fentanyl & Heroin Trafficking

TechRadar

National Public Data has finally confirmed it suffered a massive data breach that resulted in the theft and subsequent public leaking of millions of sensitive personal records.The compromised information leaked includes names, Social Security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and phone numbers for individuals living in the US, Canada, and the UK.An estimated 2.9 billion records have reportedly been circulating the dark web since April 2024, highlighting the scale and scope of the breach at the background check service.
Nearly three billion personal records leaked
National Public Data, which collects public records at various government levels, confirmed that the breach occurred in...

National Public Data finally confirms it was hit by data breach — and that millions of users are at risk

Ohio State

The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Denver, CO

The Denver City Council accepted Monday two grants totaling $24.5 million from the state of Colorado to pay for the homeless navigation campus it opened last year. One council member wants answers as to why wraparound services at the campus aren't up and running.

Denver homeless hotel wins $24.5 million grant, experiences wraparound services delay

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Binance lawsuit targets exchange as ‘get-away driver’ for bad actors

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Binance has been hit with a class action for failing to protect customers from “bad actors” in a suit that...

Binance lawsuit targets exchange as ‘get-away driver’ for bad actors

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