Accused NYC crypto bro kidnappers bragged about holding another foreign tourist hostage
Two crypto bros charged with kidnapping and torturing an Italian millionaire so he would give them his cryptocurrency password were accused of holding another European tourist hostage at their Kentucky compound, according to a report.
William Duplessie, 33, and John Woeltz, 37, took a group of models and other high fliers from Palm Beach, Florida, to the tiny Kentucky hamlet of Smithland back in February, where they engaged in a drug and gun-fueled party weekend at their sprawling $1.5 million mansion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Guests — whom Duplessie and Woeltz were trying to ingratiate themselves to — told the newspaper that the pair bragged they had kidnapped a German man, stole his cryptocurrency and…
