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REPORT: Bankrupt Crypto Outfit Hacked For $400M

CoinDesk reports: The beleaguered crypto exchange FTX suffered a $400 million hack over the weekend, and at least one blockchain expert says the clues are point to a high-level insider who committed an amateur misstep that might have inadvertently revealed their identity. The attacker appears to have “had access to all the cold wallet storages which he exploited,” Dyma Budorin, …

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Bankrupt Crypto Exchange Now Under Criminal Probe

Reuters reports: The collapse of FTX is the subject of scrutiny from investigators in the Bahamas, who are looking at whether any “criminal misconduct occurred,” the Royal Bahamas Police said on Sunday. FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday, one of the highest profile crypto blowups, after traders rushed to withdraw $6 billion from the platform in just 72 hours and …

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Reuters: Over $1B Missing At Bankrupt Crypto Outfit

Reuters reports: At least $1 billion of customer funds have vanished from collapsed crypto exchange FTX, according to two people familiar with the matter. The exchange’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to Bankman-Fried’s trading company Alameda Research, the people told Reuters. A large portion of that total has since disappeared, they said. One …

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Alaska Gov Candidate Sued For Sexual Harassment

The Associated Press reports: A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alaska faces accusations he sexually harassed a former assistant while he was a borough mayor. The lawsuit filed Friday accuses Charlie Pierce of “constant unwanted physical touching, sexual remarks, and sexual advances.” In the lawsuit, she claims Pierce touched her breast, made sexual remarks, falsely imprisoned her in his private office, …

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Andrew Cuomo Signs Deal For New Weekly Podcast

Axios reports: Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is launching a new podcast on the subscription podcast platform Quake, he told Axios. It’s the former governor’s first major public undertaking since resigning last year in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal. Details: The new hour-long show, called “As a Matter of Fact,” will debut weekly on Thursdays, beginning this …

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Pool Boy: Falwell Filmed Me Having Sex With His Wife

Yahoo News reports: A former Miami pool boy is speaking out about his affair with former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s wife, Becki Falwell, in a new documentary. “They have a public image, but behind the scenes, they’re freaks,” Giancarlo Granda says in a trailer for the new Hulu documentary, “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a …

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Fishermen In Cheating Scandal Charged With Felonies

Yahoo Sports reports: After Jacob Runyan, 42, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, were accused of cheating during a fishing tournament on Lake Erie, a Cleveland grand jury indicted them on fifth-degree felony charges of cheating, attempted grand theft and possessing criminal tools. In addition, the two have been served with the first-degree misdemeanor charge of …

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LA City Council’s Racist Former President Finally Resigns

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: Following intense public pressure amid a growing controversy over racist remarks, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez announced Wednesday she is resigning her seat. Martinez had already resigned her position as president of the council. Now she is leaving the seat altogether. “It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council …

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LIVE VIDEO: Los Angeles City Council Meets After Racist Former Council President Announces Leave Of Absence

Los Angeles’s Fox affiliate reports: Former Los Angeles City Council president Nury Martinez announced Tuesday she is taking a “leave of absence” amid growing backlash over racist comments she made about Councilman Mike Bonin’s Black son that were revealed in a leaked recording from last fall. This comes a day after Martinez resigned from her post as president. She did …

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Ex-MS Gov Subpoenaed In $77M Welfare Fraud Case

CNN reports: Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has again been subpoenaed amid an ongoing civil suit in a multimillion-dollar welfare fraud scandal, and this time attorneys want to see communications between the ex-governor and former NFL and Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre. Attorneys for one of the defendants in the state of Mississippi’s suit issued the subpoena Friday, asking …

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Favre: Welfare Fraud Claims Are “Smear By The Media”

Fox News reports: “I have been unjustly smeared in the media,” Favre said in a statement provided exclusively to Fox News Digital. “I have done nothing wrong, and it is past time to set the record straight. “No one ever told me, and I did not know, that funds designated for welfare recipients were going to the University or me. …

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Walker Finally Admits Knowing Abortion Accuser

NBC News reports: Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, claimed he confirmed for the first time Friday the identity of the woman who has claimed he paid for her abortion 13 years ago when she leveled the allegation in a text message to his wife. In a brief interview with NBC News, Walker said this was also …

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NYT: Walker Urged Woman To Have Second Abortion

The New York Times reports: A woman who has said Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, paid for her abortion in 2009 told The New York Times that he urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years later. They ended their relationship after she refused. In a series of interviews, the woman said Mr. Walker had barely …

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Walker’s New Defense: Even If I Did It, I Am Forgiven

“I know nothing about any woman having an abortion, and they can keep coming at me like that. They’re doing it because they want to distract people. “I know that, because I’ve already been forgiven. And if I’ve been forgiven, why in the world would I not be forgiven of something like that? “I wasn’t perfect. I had my problem …

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Homocon Son Again Blasts Walker: “Wear A Condom”

Salon reports: Christian Walker pulled the proverbial knife out on Herschel Walker again in light of the latest revelation from his father’s abortion bombshell. The son of the Georgia Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate drew massive media intrigue in the past week for his response to The Daily Beast’s explosive reporting about his dad. Now that the outlet has …

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Another Bombshell In Walker Abortion Story: Accuser Says She’s Also The Mother Of One Of His Children

The Daily Beast reports: After a woman revealed that Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker had urged her to have an abortion, Walker adamantly denied the story and claimed he had no idea who this woman could be. But there’s a good reason the woman finds that defense highly doubtful: She’s the mother of one of his children. When the woman …

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Walker: My Homocon Son Is A Tool Of The Left [VIDEO]

“I love my son unconditionally and that’s where I’ve always been. I always loved him unconditionally. The damage he’s doing is letting people know that the left will do whatever they can to win this seat. “And I told you when I got in this race, I’m gonna win this seat. People see someone sitting here in front of you …

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WSJ: Chess Grandmaster Likely Cheated 100+ Times

The Wall Street Journal reports: When world chess champion Magnus Carlsen last month suggested that American grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann was a cheater, the 19-year-old Niemann launched an impassioned defense. Niemann said he had cheated, but only at two points in his life, describing them as youthful indiscretions committed when he was 12 and 16 years old. Now, however, an …

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Politico: GA GOP Knew About Abortion Months Ago

Politico reports: Months before news broke alleging that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion, top Republicans in the state — including those advising his team — warned him that the story could torpedo his campaign. Four people with knowledge of those preliminary discussions said that the abortion issue was well known within the state, even before reporters began inquiring about …

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Gingrich: Walker Has A “Deep Commitment To Christ”

“If it comes down to issues, Warnock is just gone because he’s wrong on virtually everything Georgians believe in and he knows that which is why he’s trying to drag this campaign down into the mud in the hopes that he can drown Herschel Walker in mud. “You know, I talked to Herschel about this this morning and I’ve known …

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