‘Crypto king’ used NYC pad as torture chamber to get Bitcoin password – NBC New York
An investigation continues into a Manhattan case seemingly right out of a movie, the details of which are as shocking as they are disturbing.
A 37-year-old man, known by some as the “crypto king of Kentucky,” was charged with kidnapping and torturing an Italian man, accused of holding him captive inside a posh, six-story townhouse in Nolita for weeks in an attempt to get the man’s Bitcoin password, according to law enforcement sources.
John Woeltz was arrested Friday and arraigned on charges of kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and assault, among other charges. He and a business partner spent weeks torturing a third business partner, an Italian citizen, who came to New York City on May 6, law enforcement sources…
