Breon Peace News

Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, his romantic partner and a third man have been arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Carlos Watson, the co-founder of Ozy Media

Breon Peace said he will step down Jan. 10, ending a stint as federal prosecutor that included high-profile cases such as singer R Kelly’s trial for sex-trafficking, a fraud indictment of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and the criminal conviction of a US Congressman. Peace, a 53-year-old native of Brooklyn, New York, said in a statement Wednesday “it has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as United States Attorney.” He’ll be replaced as head of the Brooklyn office, known as the Eastern District of New York, by First Assistant US Attorney Carolyn Pokorny, according to the statement. He was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2021 and will leave before President-elect Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20.

A U.S. jury has convicted former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang in a bribe conspiracy case that welled up from from his country’s “tuna bond” scandal

Former TV personality Carlos Watson has been convicted in a federal financial conspiracy case about collapsed startup Ozy Media

Montreal were arrested in New York City Monday for allegedly conspiring to illegally ship $13.9 million worth of restricted technology to the Russian military.Some of the components that the Montrealers obtained through front companies later ended up in advanced Russian weapons systems and spying equipment found on battlefields in Ukraine, according to Breon Peace, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.Peace unsealed a criminal complaint that identified the two Montrealers who were charged in the case as Nikolay Goltsev, 37, and Kristina Puzyreva, 32.A third Russian man, Salimdzhon Nasriddinov from New York, was also charged.“These defendants are alleged to have illegally exported millions of dollars in electronics to support the Kremlin in its ongoing attacks of Ukraine,” said Ivan J. Arvelo, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New York.The charges follow a major probe by the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S.

By Jonathan Stempel

The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil complaint against eBay, claiming the online marketplace unlawfully sold and distributed hundreds of thousands of products like pesticides and motor vehicle emission-evading devices that violate environmental laws

A former investment banker from Deutsche Bank, Rashawn Russell, has pleaded guilty to charges of misappropriating funds from investors through promises of higher returns from cryptocurrency trading, as confirmed by the U.S. Justice Department.

The federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charged a former investment banker and registered broker for allegedly defrauding numerous investors by promising profits on fake cryptocurrency investments and misappropriating the funds received to finance his lifestyle. 

Shiba Inu price appears to have taken a breather after a consistent push by bulls for slightly over two weeks. This pressure is not unique to SHIB, as Bitcoin price is down 2.2% in 24 hours to trade at $20,796, while Ethereum price is exchanging hands at $1,527 after sliding 3.3%. The most popular meme coin, DOGE is also in the red and trading at $0.081 after a 5.5% correction in 24 hours.