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Former LAPD Officer Gets Life Sentence For Kidnapping Teen In $350,000 Crypto Robbery
Former LAPD Officer Gets Life Sentence For Kidnapping Teen In $350,000 Crypto Robbery
Authored by Brian Danga via TheBlock.co,
Former LAPD officer Eric Halem was sentenced to life plus 15 years in state prison on Tuesday for his role in the December 2024 armed robbery of a 17-year-old in Koreatown, who was robbed of a hard drive containing $350,000 worth of bitcoin.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mildred Escobedo imposed the concurrent life terms for kidnapping and robbery after rejecting a last-ditch request by defense attorneys seeking a new trial, the...
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An AI-Designed Drug Just Moved Six Different Aging Clocks At Once
An AI-Designed Drug Just Moved Six Different Aging Clocks At Once
An experimental drug designed using AI has produced measurable shifts toward a younger biological-age profile in patients.
Developed by Insilico Medicine, the drug - rentosertib - was initially engineered to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive, age-associated lung-scarring disease. When researchers analyzed blood samples from a Phase IIa clinical trial, they applied six proteomic profiling "aging clocks" among 42 participants. All six detected reductions in predicted biological age, whereas the placebo group showed little change or slight increases. The most pronounced...
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Sep 26, 2026 / Tyler Durden
IRS Probing $100 Billion In Potential COVID-19 Loan Fraud
IRS Probing $100 Billion In Potential COVID-19 Loan Fraud
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
Roughly $100 billion in loans given for COVID-19 programs have been identified as suspected fraud by tax authorities.
Earlier this year, the Small Business Administration (SBA) referred more than $200 billion in suspected COVID loan fraud to the IRS.
The tax agency then compared the information that the borrowers submitted to the SBA when applying for the loans with the information they declared to the IRS.
Analysis identified discrepancies associated with approximately $100 billion in loans, the...
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Mar 12, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Eat The Rich: Sanders And Khanna Introduce Federal Billionaires Tax
Eat The Rich: Sanders And Khanna Introduce Federal Billionaires Tax
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
“Enough is enough.” With those words, Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt) launched a push to impose a 5% annual wealth tax on America’s billionaires. With Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Cal.), the legislation, “Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act,” echoes the growing “eat-the-rich” mantra on the left — seeking to replicate a disastrous push in California that has led to an exodus from that state and an estimated loss of $2 trillion in taxable assets.
It is also flagrantly...
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