1 week ago Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trial

Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatmentThe UK government’s decades-long efforts to keep details of its intelligence agencies’ involvement in the CIA’s notorious post-9/11 torture programme hidden will face an “unprecedented” challenge this week as two cases are brought before a secretive court.The cases, filed by two prisoners held at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, will be heard across a rare four-day trial at the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT), which has been investigating claims the UK’s intelligence agencies were complicit in their mistreatment. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Inside millionaire brats' wild bender as they tortured crypto businessman in Manhattan townhouse

John Woeltz and William Duplessie hosted lavish parties in the luxury Manhattan townhouse where they allegedly tortured a man for weeks.

Society

3 w. ago Why "wrench attacks" on wealthy crypto holders are on the rise

The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves seeking digital assets

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Economics

3 w. ago Moment barefoot crypto kidnap victim escapes house of horrors and seeks help from cop after 3 weeks of alleged torture

John Woeltz and William Duplessie face kidnapping charges after the 28-year-old victim escaped from the New York City townhouse where he was allegedly being held captive and tortured

Events

3 w. ago A crypto investor is charged with kidnapping and torturing a man in an NYC apartment for weeks

Officials say a cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale Manhattan town house

Economics

3 w. ago Crypto investor in New York charged in kidnapping and torture plot

John Woeltz, 37, being held without bail after allegedly beating, shocking and dangling man from five-story homeA cryptocurrency investor was arraigned in Manhattan criminal court on Saturday morning and charged with kidnapping an Italian man and then beating and torturing him for several weeks, allegedly to extract cryptocurrency passwords.The 37-year-old crypto investor, John Woeltz, was arrested on Friday after allegedly torturing the man in a swanky home in the upscale Manhattan neighborhood of Soho. The victim reportedly escaped the five-story home on Friday and sought help from the police, who later arrested Woeltz. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago Italian businessman tortured for weeks with chainsaw and Taser in luxury New York apartment by crypto investor, police say

John Woeltz is accused of keeping an Italian citizen captive for two weeks in his lush Manhattan apartment

Economics

3 w. ago Italian businessman tortured for weeks with chainsaw and Taser in luxury New York apartment by cryto investor, police say

John Woeltz is accused of keeping an Italian citizen captive for two weeks in his lush Manhattan apartment

Economics

3 w. ago How a tourist was chained up, electrocuted, and menaced with a CHAINSAW inside man's apartment

John Woeltz, 37, was arrested in New York on Friday after the unnamed tourist escaped the house of horrors and informed a police officer that he had been kidnapped and tortured for weeks.

Society

4 w. ago Moment wealthy 'crypto bros' are dragged out of their stunning NYC mansion for kidnapping and torturing their business partner for WEEKS

Several wealthy 'crypto bros' living in a lavish New York City brownstone allegedly lured a former business partner to the residence, where they kidnapped and tortured him for weeks.

Economics