On September 30, the U.S. Attorney's Office revealed that former Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Michael David Coberg pleaded guilty on September 26 to federal felonies including conspiracy to extort and violation of civil rights. He used his police position to provide illegal protection to Adam Iza, the self-styled "godfather of cryptocurrency," and was paid at least $20,000 a month. According to the plea agreement, Coberg repeatedly abused his law enforcement powers in 2021: he used a gun to...
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has resigned after admitting she did not pay enough stamp duty on a £800,000 flat, according to reports.
According to market news, Ondo Finance has announced the acquisition of Strangelove to accelerate the development of a full-stack RWA platform.
据市场消息,Ondo Finance 宣布收购 Strangelove 以加速全栈 RWA 平台开发。
On June 11 local time, the Central Branch of the Los Angeles Police Department in California said that due to the continued protests, some areas of downtown Los Angeles will continue to implement a curfew from 20:00 on the 11th to 6:00 am local time on the 12th. Los Angeles Mayor Bass declared a local state of emergency on the 10th, and some areas of the city center will implement a curfew from 20:00 on the same day to 6:00 am the next day. She also said that the curfew may last for several days...
On the 10th local time, the US Northern Command said that 700 Marines have arrived in the Los Angeles area. The US Northern Command issued a statement on the 9th saying that about 700 Marines have been mobilized and will "seamlessly integrate" with the National Guard already deployed in the Los Angeles area of California to protect federal agencies and personnel in the Los Angeles area. CNN reported that sending an entire battalion of Marines to Los Angeles marked the Trump administration's show...
In a post on his social media platform Real Social, US President Donald Trump said: "Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonald just said that protesters are becoming more and more radical and he will'have to reassess the situation 'to decide whether to send [US National Guard] troops. He should act now! Don't let these thugs get away with it." Trump also said, "The situation in Los Angeles is very bad! Send troops in!", "Arrest people wearing masks immediately!" (Kim Ten)
According to the official announcement of the Department of Justice, Los Angeles police recently cracked a major cryptocurrency theft case. A man who called himself the "godfather of crypto" Adam Iza conspired with a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Eric Chase Saavedra to commit crimes against multiple victims through intimidation, extortion, and illegally obtaining search warrants. Saavedra uses his police officer's...
Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based investment firm with more than $2.30 trillion under management, has become one of Metaplanet's largest shareholders. Metaplanet, headquartered in Japan, attracted attention last year for building bitcoin (BTC) reserves by imitating Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy strategy. Metaplanet currently holds 1,762 bitcoins, making it the 15th largest listed company in the world to hold bitcoin.
Kevin Rose, founder of the NFT company PROOF, whose Los Angeles home was completely destroyed in the recent California wildfires, shared footage of himself walking past burned cars and homes on social media platform Threads, saying: "It's a shame that everything was lost in the fire and nothing was left."