DOJ scales back efforts to fight cryptocurrency fraud
The Department of Justice is planning to scale back its legal fight against cryptocurrency fraud, according to an April 7 memo.
Straight Arrow News
- John Woeltz is charged with assault, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a gun.
- Prosecutors said the victim told them he was shocked with electric wires, his leg was cut with a saw and he was forced to smoke crack.
A cryptocurrency investor is accused of kidnapping, beating and torturing a 28-year-old man for weeks in a scheme to obtain his Bitcoin password, authorities say.
John Woeltz, 37, was taken into custody Friday after the victim, also an investor, escaped from a luxury Manhattan townhouse and stopped an officer…







