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That is almost entirely runaways and of the small fraction that isn't they are usually abducted by other relatives. About 99% of them return home [safely]( https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/196465.pdf#page=6
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Yes but those have higher barrier to entry, MAD dynamics and the fact that you can't clone a nuclear weapon off Github.
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The trick is: > Using a "clean account with a character with a little history," Flan_Hill and an unnamed partner applied for membership in the EHEXP corporation. After the account was accepted, Flan_Hill transferred enough of h
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> In 2011, Junker admitted to all of this when he pleaded guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy. Specifically, he acknowledged conspiring to solicit political campaign contributions from Fiesta Bowl employees and to later reimburse
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What about receiving stolen property, perjury, campaign finance violations, etc? There are enough ethically flexible people out there and if you remove the major deterrent from doing these societally bad but nonviolent things I think occur
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There are investment fraud prosecutions literally all the time, they just get 5-10 years in prison usually, not life. They aren't on national news because few people know the scammer or the victims. Here are a handful from this year a
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Mandatory sentence reductions for milestones like 50%, 75%, 100% of ordered restitution/forfeiture would almost certainly incentivize repayment. Right now the federal government collects 7% of what they are owned from criminal defenda
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Article says 4% of SARs lead to law enforcement followup (and of those how many actually result in a conviction? Probably not even a third of that). So 95%+ of them are useless! The current system has terrible incentives because there are
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There is no "federal government" list other than sanctions/commerce department lists. These are both public. Either both banks decided they didn't want to deal with Pakistan anymore (maybe there was a warning about Pak
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> Whats the incentive for these sites? How do they stay operational? Intelligence gathering operation?
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In their agreement with the IRS, Scientology got spending on courses/"auditing" to be tax deductible in contravention of a Supreme Court ruling! I guess you just need time and money.
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Where is that alleged?
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by from 4y ago
Wouldn't they need to get some kind of court approval to use NSO software on an American?
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Yes that's true, in fact they can freeze some of your untainted money pending trial in order to preserve it for forfeiture. I just don't think the lawyer would get in trouble for it and in the worst case would have to give back s
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> One interesting thing a lawyer pointed out to me is that a lawyer has a duty to ensure that the money used to pay them wasn't from the proceeds of a crime. I don't think this is true in the US. Lawyers do not have any obliga
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I'm pretty sure the reason "verification code" is blocked is because people will buy a bunch of retail prepaid unlimited plan sim cards and use them to send A2P messages like verification codes instead of paying Twilio or som
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In the case of BNP Paribas, 10 times that.
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So... some compliance officer received information about terrorists allegedly using Binance and made a light hearted comment about it? The CFTC is not going to mention whatever preventative measures they took to prevent similar transaction
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Russian criminals use Binance accounts (and actually every exchange, including Coinbase) registered in the names of jobless 25 year old women from CIS countries. You can buy these accounts on basically any gray market forum with a marketpl
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Ctrl-f for fraud reveals three matches that are not related to the charged conduct.
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https://app.tether.to with wire transfer. There are high minimums, KYC requirements, and excluded jurisdictions (notably the US). Depending on your opinion these onerous requirements exist either for regulatory reasons or to p
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I've been scouring this 74 page document for a while and I cannot for the life of me find the victims of Binance's alleged conduct. Anyone want to help me out?
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What do you think are the odds this goes beyond fines? I get the feeling other agencies are gonna pile on and then there will be a huge global settlement to resolve all the cases but the Hamas stuff and the fact that they weren’t even chec
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Why are routine technical questions constantly appearing on HN? Ask on a specific subreddit Reddit or Stackoverflow.
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The decision to grant bail is in part based on the strength of the evidence and the danger to the community calculation is also in part based off past convictions. Not saying that is entirely fair, but the truth is most people in jail real
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Why would someone lie about that? Having 30 bank accounts does not confer any prestige upon you. There are companies that do this for people ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_Deposit_Account... ) and if yo
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The government tried to compel Apple this way (not through a subpoena but an ancient law called the All Writs Act) in the San Bernardino shooting case but they were able to unlock the phone through other means so the case just ended up goin
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> if Defendants attempt to attack the thoroughness of the Government’s investigation, the Government may need to present evidence that its investigatory avenues were limited by Defendants’ use of encrypted messaging Because this line of
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It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Encrypted Messaging as a DOJ Weapon(grandjurytarget.com)
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Based on the user rank in the BleepingComputer article's screenshot ("kilobyte") it looks forum.exploit.in. Anyone can buy a membership for ~$100 in BTC. I've read some of these places and honestly it's pretty bor

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