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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A Portuguese banker named in a major Angolan money-laundering and corruption scandal has died in an apparent suicide at his home, police said Thursday.

Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, named as a suspect by Angolan authorities in an investigation targeting the billionaire daughter of Angola’s former longtime leader, appeared to have hanged himself in the garage of his Lisbon apartment building late Wednesday, a police statement said.

 

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Isabel dos Santos: Africa's richest woman accused of fraud

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Attorney General Helder Pitta Gros said the allegations related to her time as chairwoman of state oil firm Sonangol.

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Her father, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, was Angola's president for 38 years before he stepped down in 2017.

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Prosecutors are seeking to recover $1bn (£760m) that Ms Dos Santos and her associates are alleged to owe the state.

"Isabel dos Santos is accused of mismanagement and embezzlement of funds during her tenure at Sonangol," Mr Pitta Gros told a news conference on Wednesday evening.

He said that as a result she was being provisionally charged with "money laundering, influence peddling, harmful management...[and] forgery of documents, among other economic crimes".

 

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11 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

BREAKING NEWS: Hillary and Bill Clinton just returned from an overnight vacation in Portugal. When asked by reporters regarding the purpose of the trip Hillary claimed it was for a long planned vacation in the sun. 

 

This just in: Suicide rate in Portugal suddenly jumps 8,000% with a rash of overnight double-tap suicides.

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Extradition hearing for WikiLeaks' Assange to be split in two parts

 

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LONDON (Reuters) - The London hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face charges including spying will be split in two, with the second half delayed until May, a judge ruled on Thursday.

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Following applications from Assange’s legal team and lawyers representing the United States, Judge Vanessa Baraitser at Westminster Magistrates’ Court agreed that his extradition hearing would start on Feb. 24 for a week, with the remaining three weeks taking place from May 18.

 

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‘Shocking and depraved:’ Alleged members of Berks County sex trafficking ring indicted

 

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Thirteen alleged members of the “Sevens” gang have been charged with crimes including kidnapping, sex trafficking, child pornography and murder. Six of them were previously arrested as part of an investigation last April and now face new charges.

All the defendants face criminal conspiracy charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, known as RICO, a legal statute frequently used to take down large criminal enterprises.

“That’s a pretty big deal, to have a RICO case,” said U.S. Attorney William McSwain at a press conference. “That’s a really powerful bazooka to point at defendants, and we thought that this merited it.”

 

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On 1/22/2020 at 12:42 PM, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

Puzzling why the subsequent reports on this aren't getting as much ink.  Strange, right?

 

There's no way that the free press would fall for a crude disinformation campaign?

 

(PS - Apparently FTI didn't even bother to jailbreak/root the iPhone, which is the first step in a true forensic analysis.  They probably didn't even wipe it with a cloth)

 

'No smoking gun': Bezos hacking report leaves cybersecurity experts with doubts

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Even as some analysts suggested FTI made the best of a difficult situation, critics of the FTI report said the paper revealed a lack of sophistication that could have been addressed by specialized mobile forensics experts, or law enforcement officials with access to premium tools.

"It does seem like [FTI] gave it the good try, but it seems they're just not as knowledgeable in the mobile forensics realm as they could have been," said Sarah Edwards, an instructor at the SANS Institute, a security training and research organization.

 

 

If the Saudis actually hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone, here are the details security experts want to know

 

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Bezos’ security chief wrote an article in The Daily Beast this week asserting that Bezos’ phone had been compromised by the Saudis, possibly in collusion with Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. 

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Here’s what we don’t know.

  • Which tools? To understand how the Saudis had access to Bezos’ cell phone, security practitioners would need to understand what tools the hackers used. Was it a known form of malware, or something new and custom-created? Did they bribe someone for access or files? Which leads to the second, related question ...
  • Was the access remote? It’s possible to attack an individual’s personal mobile device remotely, but these attacks are advanced and relatively rare in the real world. Russians have employed these tactics against NATO soldiers for instance, and the United Arab Emirates has also been toying with this type of remote monitoring, according to a Reuters report earlier this year. To have a foreign government using one of these tactics to monitor a U.S. business mogul’s phone would be stunning.
  • Or was the access physical? If someone from Saudi Arabia had Bezos’ phone in hand, or someone in Bezos’ orbit planted the malware, that is less of a national security question. But it’s definitely a question that Amazon’s board would want to have answered, as it points to a need for better cybersecurity protections for the CEO’s technology.
  • Who within the Saudi government actually executed the espionage plan? It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly who is responsible for launching such an attack, but U.S. government investigators are getting much better at it. Recent indictments of Russian, Chinese, Iranian and North Korean hackers show that investigators can now finger exactly who is involved in a specific incident. If this attack was indeed sponsored by the Saudis, an investigation should be able to give more detail or even outline individuals responsible.

 

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30 minutes ago, GG said:

 

Puzzling why the subsequent reports on this aren't getting as much ink.  Strange, right?

 

There's no way that the free press would fall for a crude disinformation campaign?

 

(PS - Apparently FTI didn't even bother to jailbreak/root the iPhone, which is the first step in a true forensic analysis.  They probably didn't even wipe it with a cloth)

'No smoking gun': Bezos hacking report leaves cybersecurity experts with doubts

If the Saudis actually hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone, here are the details security experts want to know

 

 

 

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No, Cindy. You didn't go after him -- despite knowing what he was doing, and that was trafficking and raping children -- because you and your *****stick husband were profiting from trafficking yourselves. 

 

This is a stunning attempt to deflect, while fully admitting her own culpability in allowing Epstein to continue attacking children for years and years. 

 

 

No Name's legacy will be ash.

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