Woman pleads guilty in $1.2B extortion plot against Wes Edens
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A woman admitted fraud in a scheme to extort Fortress co-founder Wes Edens for over $1.2 billion by threatening to release sex videos.
A woman pleaded guilty to fraud in a plot to extort Fortress Investment Group co-founder Wes Edens for more than $1.2 billion by threatening to release videos of them having sex, Bloomberg reported. [1]
Separately, Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI seized 112 servers and shut down 241 websites linked to an Eastern European crypto scam network that stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking Americans, Cointelegraph reported. [2]
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- Woman Pleads Guilty to Trying to Scam Wes Edens for $1.2 Billion
Bloomberg · · Summary only
- US authorities dismantle crypto scam network that stole tens of millions
Cointelegraph · · Full text