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Happy Friday! It’s September 27, and we’re tracking top stories to take you into the weekend: Citi warns employees about staff misconduct, the Kleptocracy Club, U.S. crackdown targeted slippery Adderall pill mill, Iran’s thugs roam free on the streets of New York while dissidents cower in fear, and much more…

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🎯 Citi warns employees about misconduct by staff, contractors. Citi was fined $136M in July for making insufficient progress on regulatory punishments dating back to 2020. Reuters

Top Stories

🌎 The Kleptocracy Club. What happens if America no longer leads the democratic world and instead imports secrecy and kleptocracy from the autocratic one? Atlantic 

🌎 U.S. Crackdown Targeted a Silicon Valley ‘Pill Mill.’ Secretly, It Had Already Moved to China. Done Global’s owner was arrested, but its staff in China still provides easy access to Adderall for Americans. WSJ 

🌎 Why Are Iran’s Thugs Free to Walk the Streets of New York? ‘The fact U.S. taxpayer dollars provided personal security for Iranian leaders trying to kill senior Americans is simply lunacy.’ Free Press 

🇮🇷 U.S. charges three Iranian hackers and imposes sanctions for targeting Trump CNN

🇮🇷 Iran, Hezbollah enabled Houthis' rise Reuters 

🌎 Global Effort Disrupts Russia Linked Network Using Crypto to Evade Sanctions, U.S. Charges Two Russians. Authorities also seized websites associated with three illicit cryptocurrency exchanges. CoinDesk 

🌎 Eric Adams Has a Foreign Corruption Problem. New York’s Is Way Bigger. The indictment of NYC’s mayor is the latest federal investigation into foreign interference at every level of city government. Rolling Stone

🌎 Binance founder CZ walks free from U.S. prison. With a net worth of $60 billion, CZ is the wealthiest person ever to serve a prison sentence in the U.S. Cointelegraph

🌎 Fidelity Slashes Mobile Deposit Limits Following Fraud Wave. Online check-fraud scheme shares some similarities with the fraud wave that hit JPMorgan. WSJ 

🌎 Tens of thousands of killers, convicts, and robbers among illegal immigrants at large. China and Cuba are notoriously bad at taking back criminals, meaning that ICE often has to release them. Wash Times

Russia & China

📌 Drones From Sanctioned Chinese Company Fly Near National Security Sites Free Beacon

📌 Sanctioned Cambodian Senator Had Links to Alleged Chinese Crime Figures OCCRP 

📌 UK Agency Doles Out First Fine for Russian Sanctions Dodging Bloomberg 

📌 ‘We are going to get to the finish line on Russia’s reserves’ Atlantic Council 

📌 Europe Can’t Seem to Kick Its Russian Energy Habit Bloomberg

📌 India will not buy from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project Reuters

Corruption & Financial Crime

💸 Washington targeted ‘corrupt’ mines; workers paid the greatest price WaPo 

💸 For those involved in Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'freak offs,' indictments bring scrutiny and uncertainty LAT

💸 Erdogan’s private military company looks to raise an Islamist army Long War Journal 

💸 Attorneys General Back Lawsuit Charging Americans for Muslims in Palestine With Supporting Hamas Free Beacon 

💸 U.S. considering new visa curbs, oil sanctions on Venezuela Reuters

Crypto & Cyber

🔐 Ransomware gangs use stolen data to threaten CEOs Fortune

🔐 Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? Atlantic

🔐 Crypto mogul known as ‘The Godfather’ used L.A. deputies for extortion LAT

🔐 Tornado Cash Co-Founder Roman Storm Must Face Trial in AML Case Decrypt

🔐 White House agonizes over UN cybercrime treaty Politico

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

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