Three down and one to go.
… Police on Tuesday night said officers were interviewing the suspects and that charges were pending against Akashdeep Singh, 28, Sourav Sourav, 28, and Ramanpreet Massih, 23.
Crime
Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh slapped with another 40 years in prison for ripping off clients, his law firm
Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh was slammed with a 40-year prison term Monday morning for a slew of financial crimes he pleaded guilty to last year.
The disgraced former attorney has already been sentenced to two life terms for the shocking murders of his wife and 22-year-old son in one of the most closely watched criminal cases in recent history.
Who you gonna call? Why wealthy Torontonians are relying on private security to stop auto theft
There’s something wrong when more and more GTA residents feel compelled to hire private security firms to patrol their neighbourhoods, watching for auto thieves, a city councillor says.
“It’s a terrible sign of a terrible problem,” Coun. Dianne Saxe of University-Rosedale Riding said in an interview.
“Clearly, it’s an enormous problem.”
I guess the Hamas Support Marches are depleting resources.
Or is the TTC overwhelming the TPS?
Maybe diversity is making Toronto stronger!
Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle await their own fates
After playing a key role in securing Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction, three former members of his inner circle must now await their fate on fraud charges related to the multi-billion dollar collapse FTX.
Caroline Ellison, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang admitted their roles in defrauding customers and clients of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange, and its sister company Alameda Research of an estimated $8 billion and are due to be sentenced in the coming months.
All three of the former crypto executives provided damning testimony at Bankman-Fried’s trial in return for leniency.
Gunshot-Detection Tech Has Saved Hundreds of Lives. The Left Says It’s Racist
It was late on a December 2021 evening when Joshua Junior Carter was shot in the leg and torso. He collapsed in a Winston-Salem, N.C., field. He didn’t have a phone to call for help.
No one called 911 to report the gunfire at a time when killings in the city were near record highs, according to reports. So, Carter remained in the field, alone and bleeding.
Clues from 200 mobile phones over who visited Epstein’s island
Before Jeffrey Epstein died in jail while awaiting charges for sex-trafficking minors, and in the years afterwards, a trail of documentary evidence identified associates and famous friends of the financier who visited his Caribbean island.
Flight logs named passengers aboard his jet, his calendar showed meetings planned at Little St James with a scientist, a prominent diplomat and a venture capitalist. Emails revealed in court documents showed a banker lounging in a hot tub there with a glass of white wine.
Rising cost of living and rising crime? They’re connected
The cost of living has soared since COVID, owing to supply line disruptions, the war in Ukraine and climate-related disasters. Many Canadians feel the pinch of inflation, which is unpleasant enough. However, the rising cost of living may lead to another problem: higher crime.
Why would higher costs of living lead to increased crime? We can summarize this prediction in one word: desperation. When living is expensive, there are more people who are at risk of not affording their rent, mortgage, groceries and other necessities. Some Canadians barely have enough money to make it to payday, or don’t have enough. And as the saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Sam Bankman-Fried is still gambling
Sam Bankman-Fried has learned nothing, and I’m not sure any of the rest of us have, either.
At his sentencing, I sat several rows behind Bankman-Fried, clad in prison khaki and clanking faintly when he walked from the shackles on his feet, while he gave his statement to the court. “I’m sorry about what happened at every stage,” Bankman-Fried said. “I failed everyone I cared about.”
I assume SBF is hoping that his appeal will be helped if he refuses to admit to the crimes committed or he’s just an entitled rich kid without boundaries.
Probably not a good plan when the Judge cites 3 instances of perjury during sentencing.
I am curious about Caroline Ellison’s conviction, one account suggested she may get off with no jail time at all.
German court rules Mercedes knew about cheat devices
The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court on Thursday found that Mercedes Benz staff had deliberately fitted unauthorized devices to rig emissions levels in some models.
The “Dieselgate” scandal, revolving around the revelation that automakers were cheating when it came to emissions tests, first rocked Volkswagen in 2015 and then spread to other carmakers.
FTX cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years
Judge Kaplan: It is the judgment of the court that you are sentenced to 240 months then consecutive 60 [etc] for a total of 300 months [25 years]
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) March 28, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former cryptocurrency mogul who was convicted of fraud, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday, capping an extraordinary saga that upended the multi-trillion-dollar crypto industry and became a cautionary tale of greed and hubris.
Mr. Bankman-Fried’s sentence was shorter than the 40 to 50 years that federal prosecutors had recommended, but above the six-and-a-half-year sentence requested by the defense lawyers. A federal probation officer had recommended 100 years, just under the maximum possible penalty of 110 years behind bars.
I thought he would go down harder the Judge really ripped into him
‘Remorseless’ Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison — as judge rips him as power-obsessed scammer
A Manhattan judge ripped Sam Bankman-Fried as a “remorseless” scammer obsessed with political power as he sentenced the fallen crypto mogul to 25 years in prison Thursday — five months after he was found guilty of stealing more than $8 billion of funds from customers of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Judge Lewis Kaplan said the 32-year-old convicted fraudster “presented himself as the good guy” all in favor of “appropriate regulation of the crypto industry” — but it was just an “act.”
Judge Kaplan: I find the Mr. Bankman-Fried gave perjured testimony at trial – he falsely testified that until the Fall of 2022 he had no knowledge that Alameda had spent FTX customer funds. He falsely testified that he first learned of the $8 billion in Oct 2022
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) March 28, 2024
Well done.
Crypto Crook Sam Bankman-Fried Sentencing Set For Tomorrow pic.twitter.com/1VWK1QrNAB
— @stevenvoiceover (@stevenvoiceover) March 27, 2024
Trudeau ‘Deepfake’ Cryptocurrency Scam Costs Toronto Man $12K
A Toronto man has lost $12,000 to a cryptocurrency scam that involved a “deepfake” video of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a mistake that he says has robbed him of his life savings.
Stephen Henry saw a YouTube video last November that he thought was real because it appeared to be endorsed by the Liberal leader.
“I thought, ‘It’s got to be legitimate, it’s got to be perfect. If not, how could you get the prime minister?’ So I thought, ‘It’s got to be official,” Mr. Henry told CTV.
Diversity strikes again …
48 stolen vehicles seized, 150 charges laid in Toronto police investigations
Officers say 48 vehicles with a combined value of just under $4 million were recently seized as part of an undercover Toronto police investigation focused on the trafficking, shipping, and re-vinning of stolen vehicles.
Speaking at a news conference in Toronto on Wednesday, police provided details on two separate but related undercover investigations, dubbed Project Spectre and Project Paranoid.
Diddy breaks his silence: Rapper says he’s the victim of a ‘witch hunt’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs says he’s the victim of a ‘witch hunt’ and bemoans ‘military-level force’ used against him as he finally spoke out following the Monday double raid on his estates.
Aaron Dyer, an attorney for the rapper, broke Combs’ silence just over 24 hours after the Homeland Security investigation with a statement to DailyMail.com.
‘Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level force as search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs’ residences. There is no excuse for the excessive show of force and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way his children and employees were treated,’ Dyer said.
‘I did not make up any of my evidence’: Undercover Toronto cop defends testimony about death of Const. Jeffrey Northrup
An undercover Toronto police officer is sticking to his evidence about what he saw when Const. Jeffrey Northrup was fatally run over in an underground parking garage at Nathan Phillips Square.
In a Toronto court on Tuesday, defence lawyer Nader Hasan referred to grainy, poor-quality surveillance video to challenge Const. Scharnil Pais’s testimony that he witnessed Umar Zameer drive his vehicle toward a standing Northrup on July 2, 2021.
This is interesting, while the perp is guilty he may get off or receive a light sentence.
Saw an undercover TPS pick-up truck issuing a traffic ticket recently for the 1st time. All black or very deep dark brown in colour.
Diddy’s LA, Miami homes raided by federal agents as part of sex trafficking probe: report
Diddy’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided Monday as part of a federal sex trafficking investigation, according to Fox News.
The raid was made by Homeland Security Investigations in the Holmby Hills area of the city, according to Fox, who said it had witnessed federal agents going into the home.
The network also cited sources saying a Miami home owned by record label boss Diddy – real name Sean Combs – was also raided Monday.
NOW – Federal agents have raided the home of American rapper and record producer Sean "Diddy" Combs.pic.twitter.com/Ddrem9srGh
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 25, 2024
🚨#BREAKING: Sean Diddy Combs has fled the United States on his Gulfstream private jet⁰⁰📌#Unitedstates | #USA ⁰⁰American rapper Diddy has reportedly left the United States on his private jet, a Gulfstream G550 N1969 / SIS69 which took off earlier today from Van Nuys Airport… pic.twitter.com/ChkKWnzB7u
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 26, 2024