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Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: On Wednesday afternoon, a wave of bomb threats were reported at various locations across the United States. On social media, numerous law enforcement departments issued alerts notifying citizens that they're looking into bomb threats targeting businesses, schools, government offices and even private residents. It appears the threats are being sent by email. NBC News said "dozens" of threats had been reported, but the full extent of these threats is not yet clear. A number of news organizations and law enforcement agencies report remarkably similar sounding emails mentioning a bitcoin ransom of $20,000. And some Twitter users have shared emails they've received demanding the cryptocurrency and warning that an explosion would only encourage others to pay up. NBC News quoted the NYPD's Counterterrorism Bureau's brief statement on the investigation: "We are currently monitoring multiple bomb threats that have been sent electronically to various locations throughout the city. These threats are also being reported to other locations nationwide and are not considered credible at this time."
Someone set up us the bomb!
I checked the btc address (1LeReNiUgHNXvvR8TpgQG1b5nzqoKeUxDY), he's got nothing but a few felonies coming his away. Not a single person paid a cent!
"Quite so. You'd think that the feds would be ready to pounce on any coin redeemed for cash" - Derp, lol. What's your basis for thinking that?
Also ledgers are fairly fucking simple to distribute, sell, disseminate, sit on indefinitely... so there's that. They could probably spend all of it paying 3rd parties for services and no one would know for years.
Sir, the block chain is not private and ALL transactions in BitCoin are publicly recorded. So, yea, you may sit on an illegally obtained Coin all you want, but it's worthless until you trade it for something of value. Once you attempt to transfer ownership, it pops up in the block chain, bells go off over at the Feds and a host of agents start investigating who the new owner of the coin is so they can ask them who they got the funds from. So, sitting on it is pointless, your best bet is to TRADE it sooner rather than later, get your value out of it before the Feds can set up to spring the trap with your ill gotten gains as the bait.
""It is not a crime to hire a bad lawyer." - However, if you provably enter into a crime with that lawyer, not only is he going to prison (did) but so are you, and without any 5th Amendment protections in that relationship.
Oh you DO understand that you have to really read a lot of stuff between the lines here. I'd like to know what you think the "provable crime" here might have been here. Hiring Cohen to "fix" situations by paying women for their silence isn't illegal in and of itself. This kind of thing happens all the time and apparently this isn't a new thing for Trump either. He paid Karen McDougal and even purchased an unflattering news story about that well in advance of his running for president. It's important that you understand that this is SOP for Trump and has been for years before the election, that this was his standard practice.
The question then becomes not about the legality of the agreements with the women, but the question of if paying the money was a campaign finance violation, and if so, by who? Well, Mueller claims that the Trump organization (his business) actually paid these expenses, in fact he claims they tried to hide these payments, burying it in creative accounting, but that too was their standard practice (i.e. not done for campaign reasons). Then there is the audio recording where Trump "ordered" Cohen to pay Daniels, where he arguably is offering to cut Cohen a check which Cohen seems to refuse. I don't think this is Trump ordering Cohen to violate campaign finance law at all...
Cohen may indeed be guilty of a campaign finance violation depending on how he views the payments, but that's on him, not Trump. If Trump was ordering the payments for other reasons (as in it's how he handles these things as evidenced by his past actions) then it's not a campaign finance issue at all. Further, if Trump ordered and PAYED the money to Cohen (which again he could easily argue given the fees he was paying) it is not a campaign finance violation for any of them including Cohen, despite of his guilty plea otherwise.
I'm telling you that you need to be patient and see what the whole body of evidence shows here. There are fundamental questions which simply must be answered and specific points which must be proven or this is going to end totally different than you assume.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
With this type of crime, there's no country in the world that wants to harbor the terrorist. If not extradited, they'll be punished locally.
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But I didn't have the heart to tell them that I don't have an office, so if they wanted to blow up some random building, well...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Those notes had Nigeria written all over them.
Well no they had a threat and a demand for BTC written all over them, but you get what I mean...
My first bomb threat! The ransom was typed as $20.00 in BTC, not 20000.00. He also said it was just business, and he was not responsible for any property damage. It was an entertaining read, the whole office got a kick out of it, and talk of involving the FIB just led to stories about how the cops never do anything anyway, may find a way to pin it on you for making the call, and if we're gonna waste time at work, we don't need no fed telling us how.
Email was spoofed or compromised from some used car salesmen in Boise, ID. I'm sure it's gonna be an entertaining morning for that dude.
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