Crypto entrepreneurs allegedly kidnapped, tortured former business partner in SoHo ‘house of horrors’
SOHO, Manhattan (WABC) — Several ‘crypto bros’ living in a SoHo brownstone allegedly turned it into a house of horrors by luring a former business partner, who had a falling out with them, back from Italy with false business promises, and then kidnapped and tortured him for weeks, investigators now believe.
One crypto entrepreneur was taken into custody on Friday after the 28-year-old victim escaped in the morning and ran to a traffic agent for help.
Police descended on the opulent brownstone on Prince Street as detectives tried to make sense of the depraved story they heard from the victim who said he’d been held captive for weeks.
The 28-year-old victim told police he arrived from Italy on May 6 and went to the home on Prince Street.
He…
