In letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ranking Republican members of the House Committees on Oversight and Reform and the Subcommittee on National Security urged the Biden administration to do “everything in its power to seize any illicitly gained funds that were corruptly embezzled …
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The platform, almost exclusively dedicated to sexualized photos and videos, has announced it will no longer allow users to post any “sexually explicit conduct” come October. However, it said, creators will still be able to post nude photos and videos – as long as they are “consistent with OnlyFans’ policy.” “In …
Read More »‘I’m not very interested in money’: Hackers return $260 million in assets stolen in biggest crypto heist ever
Roughly a day after it fell prey to the largest heist in crypto history by the volume of assets stolen, Poly Network announced that the alleged perpetrator, or perpetrators, of the hack returned some $260 million in bitcoin, ethereum and polygon tokens flushed out in the attack. About $353 million …
Read More »The Man with the Money: How Michael Calvey went from billion-dollar Moscow investor to facing years behind bars in a Russian jail
Accused of dodgy dealing, the businessman was locked up in the notorious Matrosskaya Tishina prison, on the outskirts of the Russian capital, within days. After months of appeals he was released, first to house arrest in his upmarket residential building and, later, he was allowed to go out subject to curfew …
Read More »Prominent anti-vax activist Piers Corbyn takes MONOPOLY MONEY from fake vaccine investors in YouTube prank
Piers Corbyn has become a regular fixture at anti-lockdown rallies in London over the last year, getting himself arrested on multiple occasions for breaching mask mandates and other Covid-related restrictions. He’s compared mass innoculation to the Holocaust, and picketed vaccination centres. However, he’s apparently not above taking some cold, hard …
Read More »Biden begs for extension of eviction moratorium as gigantic aid money pool sits undistributed & housing market starts to wobble
The White House would have liked to extend the federal eviction moratorium, said a statement posted by the Biden administration on Thursday, but instead it had no choice but to let the protection lapse on Saturday – after “the Supreme Court has made clear that this option is no longer available.” …
Read More »Wannabe Mayweather: Boxing star Haney blasted for throwing money in air while claiming it ‘took him 2 hours’ to count cash (VIDEO)
In a cash-crazed scene reminiscent of boxing great Floyd Mayweather’s tendency to picture himself surrounded by money, WBC lightweight champion Haney, who once caused controversy by claiming he would “never lose to a white boy in my life”, started the clip with his shirt off inside a house. The film …
Read More »Long-awaited UFO report mentions no aliens, but asks for more money for US spies
Released on Friday afternoon by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the entire unclassified report clocks in at only nine pages, including two pages of appendices with definitions of terms. The dataset it is based on relies on US government reports of incidents between November 2004 and …
Read More »Money walks: Scantily clad pitch invader who interrupted Belgium and Finland at Euro 2020 was advertizing cryptocurrency
The lightly-dressed daredevil was described as “sexy” by some fans as they spotted her casually making her way to the halfway line during the game at the Gazprom Arena. Weaving between players from either side, the intrepid exhibitionist was brandishing the name of a firm dealing in the rapidly growing market …
Read More »Money from home: Richest US families keep wealth to themselves instead of generating more, study reveals
Titled “Silver Spoon Oligarchs,” the new study showed how the top 0.01% richest Americans retained their wealth in spite of what are supposed to be high taxes levied on the ultra-wealthy. Spoiler alert: they aren’t producing useful goods, running factories, creating jobs, or any of that nonsense – they’re hoarding what they …
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