A Denver rabbi who promotes psychedelic use as part of spiritual practice will no longer face prosecution after Coloradans voted last month to legalize psilocybin, the chemical compound found in psychedelic mushrooms. Denver’s district attorney’s office announced last week that it was dropping charges against Ben Gorelick, the founder of Sacred Tribe, a multifaith community…
Fallen FTX mogul Sam Bankman-Fried appeared in court in the Bahamas Tuesday, signaling he plans to fight extradition to the US, where he faces a slew of federal charges, including fraud and making illegal campaign contributions. The 30-year-old accused crypto crook appeared relaxed and wearing a blue shirt at a heavily guarded court in the…
The college senior from upstate New York who went missing while studying abroad in France had said he was struggling to make friends and felt “insufficiently prepared” for life in Europe. Ken DeLand Jr., a student at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, last contacted his parents on Nov. 27 via WhatsApp after leaving his…
Accused crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried has been busted in the Bahamas — accused of “massive, years-long fraud” that defrauded investors out of $1.8 billion through “a house of cards” built “on a foundation of deception.” The fallen 30-year-old FTX mogul was arrested Monday night after the Bahamian government received formal notification from the US of…
Channel migrants are being recruited from asylum hotels and children’s homes by organised crime gangs, police chiefs have warned. The migrants were discovered as part of a major police operation to smash the organised crime groups behind Britain’s biggest counterfeit crime network run out of a district in central Manchester. The 33 organised crime groups…
Credit Suisse provided an emergency $140mn loan to Greensill Capital based partly on invoices to companies who deny ever doing the business stated on the documents. The Swiss bank provided the loan in October 2020, less than five months before the collapse of Greensill, a supply chain finance firm that counted former UK prime minister…
Police in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia have arrested 63 people for laundering 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) of cryptocurrency, in the latest case highlighting the opaque nature of China’s crypto market, which ranks No 4 worldwide despite an official ban on trading by the central government. Starting in May 2021, the crypto…
The Greek MEP Eva Kaili is one of the four people who have been placed under arrest by a Brussels federal prosecutor on Sunday in the Qatar corruption scandal. Kaili was charged with money laundering, corruption and participating in a criminal organization. In an announcement that does not mention specific names, the Brussels federal prosecutor’s…
Details of fraud allegations faced by the cryptocurrency trader accused of killing his mother in her own home have been revealed. Andre Zachary Rebelo, 26, remains behind bars three weeks after he was charged with the murder of his mother, Colleen Rebelo, 58, at her home in the affluent Perth suburb of Bicton in May…
When she was living her life as an 18-year-old model in Tel Aviv, a friend pushed Eden Harel to audition for MTV. That audition turned out to be a resounding success and she relocated to London soon after, beginning her journey as a host on the popular channel. “MTV had a different power back then…