Happy Friday! It’s April 3, and we’re tracking top stories to take you into the weekend: Trump Gambles by Easing Oil Sanctions on Iran and Russia, Gavin Newsom's Empire of Fraud, Nepal Arrests Power Broker Deepak Bhatta in Money Laundering Probe, Texas Doctor Charged with Illegally Distributing Millions of Opioid Pills, and much more…

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Trump Gambled by Easing Oil Sanctions on Iran and Russia. Will It Pay Off? The war in Iran has shocked global energy markets by choking off oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Council on Foreign Relations

🔥 TOP STORIES

Gavin Newsom's Empire of Fraud City Journal

Nepal Arrests Power Broker Deepak Bhatta in Money Laundering Probe OCCRP

Texas Doctor Charged with Illegally Distributing Millions of Opioid Pills Department of Justice

San Diego fentanyl bust: Enough seized to kill city 3 times over New York Post

Sweden stops sanctioned tanker suspected of causing Baltic oil spill after leaving Russian port AP News

8 Arrested in Health Care Fraud Takedown, Including Owners of Hospices That Billed Taxpayers Millions to Serve the 'Dying' Department of Justice

After Sting Operation, Cousin of Bashar al-Assad Convicted in Arms for Drugs Deal NYT

North Korean hackers bug software used by thousands of US companies in crypto heist attempt CNN

Former Airman Pleads Guilty to Multi-Year Bid Rigging Schemes to Defraud U.S. Air Force Department of Justice

Circle faces backlash after $285 million Drift hack CoinDesk

Ma Xingrui becomes China's third Politburo member investigated for corruption South China Morning Post

UK and allies discuss sanctions to stop Iran blocking Strait of Hormuz BBC

EU blames major cybercrime group for cloud infrastructure breach Politico

ICE arrests head of mosque with links to Hamas and Rep Rashida Tlaib Daily Mail

Fed's Barr Says Stablecoins Need Tighter Controls to Fight Money Laundering Decrypt

🚀 SANCTIONS & TERROR

UN Agencies Are Stonewalling a Probe Into Their Employees' Ties to Hamas Washington Free Beacon

Putin's War Chest Set To Explode With Iran War, Lifted U.S. Sanctions Forbes

Iran Using Covert Network to Rebuild Drone Army Telegraph

Dozen Sanctioned Russian Vessels Defy Starmer by Entering Channel Telegraph

🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA

US removes Russian national Mikhail Zadornov from sanctions list Reuters 

Russian corruption fuels massive casualties in Ukraine PBS

DeepSeek's V4 model will run on Huawei chips Reuters

U.S. returns Chinese drug fugitive in rare extradition CBS News

Russia's Sanctions-Busting Cryptocurrency Empire Foreign Policy

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

Jury can't reach verdict in corruption trial of 2 ex-FirstEnergy executives in $60M bribery scandal AP News

Owner of Star Distribution pleads guilty in Feeding Our Future fraud case ABC

Everest guides 'secretly poisoned' climbers to trigger costly helicopter rescues' as part of £15m scam Daily Mail

Venezuela's Rodriguez readies Citgo board takeover Reuters

Longtime Friend of Eric Adams Is Indicted on Health Care Fraud Charges NYT

ICC Moves Ahead With Disciplinary Proceedings Against Chief Prosecutor WSJ

Greek ministers resign over EU farming subsidy scandal DW

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

Elon Musk's X to deploy scam kill switch by auto-locking first-time crypto mentioners CoinDesk

CBP Facility Codes Sure Seem to Have Leaked Via Online Flashcards Wired

CERT-EU: European Commission hack exposes data of 30 EU entities BleepingComputer

Peppa Pig and Transformers Owner Hasbro Hit by Cyber-Attack BBC

KuCoin Operator Barred From U.S. After CFTC Order Decrypt

CFTC to Take On Predictions Market Insider Trading WSJ

🚚 TRAFFICKING

U.S. Prosecutors Hint at More Charges for Alleged South American Drug Baron Sebastián Marset OCCRP

Drug trafficking ring bust in North Philadelphia leads to 17 arrests ABC

Massachusetts man sentenced for trafficking body parts of wild animals Boston Herald

US health officials warn of veterinary sedative in illegal drug supply Reuters

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