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By Andrew Dalton | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, on Tuesday. The account is similar to the still-unresolved Los Angeles criminal sexual assault case that prompted Polanski in 1978 to flee to Europe, where he has remained since. The woman who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner…

The story of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon and his long battle against extradition to the Us is to be turned into a feature film.It will tell the story of how a young man hunting for evidence of UFOs found his way into the Pentagon’s system and carried out what American authorities described as “the biggest military computer hack of all time” and then faced the possibility of a long sentence in a US high security prison.The film, The People v Gary McKinnon, will be directed by Paul McGuigan, who made Gangster Number 1…

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and notorious whistleblower, lost another appeal challenging his extradition to face legal charges in the United States Friday. Now his lawyers say Assange, who previously spent seven years seeking refuge in an Ecuadorian embassy, is “dangerously close” tospending the rest of his life in an American cell.Assange faces 18 criminal charges in the US including an alleged violation of the 1917 Espionage Act and computer hacking. WikiLeaks published thousands of classified documents and…

South Korea and the US are seeking the extradition of Do Kwon, an international fugitive accused of a multibillion-dollar fraud, and another suspect arrested in Montenegro last week, the Montenegrin Justice Minister Marko Kovac said on Wednesday. Do Kwon, a South Korean national, is a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and former CEO of South Korea-based Terraform Labs, the company behind the stablecoin TerraUSD that collapsed in May 2022 and roiled cryptocurrency markets. A US indictment announced last week charged Do Kwon, who…

Terra co-founder Do Kwon, the man who arguably started the crypto collapse last year who was definitely not on the lam, was finally arrested Thursday. Now there are multiple countries, including Montenegro, South Korea, and the U.S. who are calling dibs on the failed crypto founder, making him a far more desirable commodity than any kind of crypto he’s recently tried pushing.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is seeking Kwon’s extradition to the United States, according to Nicholas Biase, the…

Kwon Do-hyung has been accused of fraud over his company Terraform Lab's dramatic collapse last year, which wiped out about $40 billion of investors' money and shook global crypto markets. Kwon reportedly flew from South Korea to Singapore ahead of the company's crash in May last year.…

FP StaffDec 20, 2022 12:12:05 ISTFTX’s co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s extradition trial was chaotic, to say the least. The proceedings hit a major snag on the first day itself, and have now evolved into something that may be a prolonged trial. FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried had earlier said he would fight extradition to the US. However, he took everyone by surprise when he told the Bahama court that he was won’t be fighting extradition. His lawyer interject saying he wasn’t aware of this, and that SBF may have been coerced.Image…

When the Bahamas Attorney General's office announced that it had arrested former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, it noted that the former FTX CEO was likely to be extradited at the request of the United States. Just over a week later, that prediction has come true: Bankman-Fried signed extradition papers on Tuesday afternoon. According to an unsealed indictment, Bankman-Fried is facing 8 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, commodities fraud, securities fraud, and more. Specifically, the SEC accuses the cryptocurrency…

Sam Bankman-Fried’s eventual return to New York might not be the homecoming he wants, as he’ll likely be quickly detained and arraigned before a tense bail hearing.Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)After a strange, strange day of hemming and hawing, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried finally agreed to not contest extradition to the U.S., finally giving in to demands he face federal fraud charges.It follows a haphazard few days where the failed crypto moghul first planned to contest extradition from The Bahamas before…

US prosecutors allege Bankman-Fried played a central role in the rapid collapse of FTX and hid its problems from the public and investors. Bankman-Fried arrived at the courthouse in a black van marked Corrections, escorted by a SWAT vehicle and a police vehicle.…