[FoxBusiness] Prince Holding Group's Chen Zhi and his associates allegedly generated up to $30M per day at one point through scamming
Bitcoin valued at $15 billion has been seized by the Department of Justice (DOJ) from a massive "pig butchering" network, and in what officials say is the "largest forfeiture action in U.S. history."
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, unsealed an indictment Tuesday charging Chen Zhi, also known as "Vincent," leader of the Prince Holding Group, in connection with the crypto scam scheme, based out of Cambodia.
Zhi, 37, who is still at large, is also accused of directing Prince Group’s operation of forced-labor scam compounds across the country. The DOJ said Zhi used violence to discipline workers.
Images of beatings were included in the evidence unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Prosecutors also allege the company was a front for one of Asia’s largest criminal enterprises.
"As alleged, the defendant directed one of the largest investment fraud operations in history, fueling an illicit industry that is reaching epidemic proportions," said Joseph Nocella, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
According to court documents seen by FOX Business, Zhi built Prince Group, which claimed to invest in real estate, finance, and consumer services across more than 30 countries, into a massive network of "phone farm" compounds.
There, trafficked workers were allegedly forced to carry out scams that lured victims online through fake romantic relationships, pleas for financial help, or promises of lucrative cryptocurrency investments. Such schemes are referred to as "Sha Zhu Pan" or "pig butchering," according to the DOJ.
Prosecutors said Zhi company generated up to $30 million per day at its peak, stealing crypto funds that were laundered through what's known as unhosted digital wallets, which puts users in charge.
The 127,271 bitcoins, worth $15 billion and now in U.S. custody, were allegedly held in the wallets controlled by Zhi.
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[Regnum] On the night of October 14, the Sun emitted one of the largest solar prominences of 2025. This was reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"Today, between two and four o'clock in the morning Moscow time, one of the largest prominences this year was ejected from the Sun. It had been observed for the past few days on the eastern edge of the star and has been gradually shifting towards Earth all this time," the laboratory's Telegram channel reported.
According to coronagraph data, the plasma filament has already moved approximately 20 million kilometers from the star. Scientists clarified that its trajectory passes between Mercury and Earth, and neither planet will be in the ejecta's path.
According to experts, if the prominence had erupted a day later, the Earth would have been hit tangentially. If it had erupted on October 17, the planet could have suffered a direct impact.
On October 13, 15 solar flares were recorded in less than a day, three of which were strong, class M. The main source of this activity is region 4246, which continues to exhibit instability. Class M solar flares are considered moderate-intensity events, but during periods of high activity they can affect the Earth's magnetic field, triggering geomagnetic storms and interfering with satellites and communications systems.
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[Regnum] A weak region of the Earth's magnetic field, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, is growing and expanding. European Space Agency ( ESA ) scientists warned on October 13.
"Scientists have discovered that a weak region of the Earth's magnetic field over the South Atlantic, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, has expanded over an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014," the publication says.
A weakening of the magnetic field in the area of the anomaly threatens to damage and disrupt critical equipment. Furthermore, scientists noted that the expansion of this phenomenon could lead to power outages.
Chris Finlay, a professor of geomagnetism at the Technical University of Denmark, noted in the publication that such changes in the anomaly are associated with strange patterns in the magnetic field at the boundary between the Earth's outer core and its mantle.
[ZERO] The president of Boston's Police Patrolmen's Association has responded after a violent mob of over 100 people unleashed chaos in Boston’s streets, torching a police cruiser and pelting officers with fireworks, cones, and poles in what witnesses called a "riot-like" assault on law enforcement.
The wild attack, which unfolded in the early hours of October 5, was described as a deliberate and "hell-bent" targeting of police, according to Larry Calderone, president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, in an interview with Fox News.
"They came with a plan to attack officers, and they executed it," Calderone said, slamming the mob’s actions as "absolutely unacceptable."
The mayhem began just after 2 a.m. when police responded to reports of illegal street racing, only to be met with an all-out assault. One cruiser was set ablaze and left in ruins, requiring a tow from the scene.
The rampaging group didn’t stop there, moving through four Boston communities and growing more aggressive at each stop before converging in the city’s South End. "This was premeditated," Calderone warned. "If you’re coming to Boston to terrorize our city or assault our officers, you’re not welcome here."
The president of a union that represents Boston coppers said that people who took part in a recent street takeover in the city were "hell-bent" on attacking law enforcement officials.
According to the Boston Police Department, over 100 people were involved in the takeover that involved street racing just after 2 a.m. on October 5. Officers found more than 100 people trying to attack police cruisers with fireworks, cones, poles and other items.
One police cruiser was destroyed by flames and needed to be towed away from the area, officials said.
Boston Police Patrolmen's Association President Larry Calderone told Fox News Digital that those participating in the street takeover were focused on attacking officers.
Julian Bowers, 18, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, and William Cantwell, 19, were arrested in relation to the street takeover, according to officials. (WFXT)
"They knew what they were going to do and they were hell-bent on attacking coppers. But that is not an everyday occurrence," Calderone said.
Calderone said that the individuals took the street takeover to four different areas before ending in the city's South End area.
"What happened last weekend got out of control, it went through four different communities, ended up here at a couple of locations in Boston. And each location that they went to in this past incident, it appears as though they got more aggressive," he said. "And when they ended up in the downtown South End section of Boston, that pretty much in our opinion looked premeditated."
Maduro's ditching Norway and Australia for Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe embassies—pure spite after the Nobel went to opposition firebrand Machado. This pivot isolates Venezuela further, choking off Western trade lifelines in a crumbling economy.
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[Regnum] The price of gold futures for December 2025 delivery on the Comex exchange reached a record $4,150 per troy ounce, according to trading platform data.
At its peak, the precious metal's price rose 1.97%. However, shortly after reaching a new high, price momentum slowed. By 3:06 AM Moscow time, the futures contract was trading at $4,138.1 per ounce, maintaining a significant gain of 1.68% for the session.
The previous record high for gold prices was recorded in April 2024.
Analysts are confident that the yellow metal has potential for further growth. The deteriorating geopolitical situation and the Federal Reserve's tight monetary policy are cited as reasons. Since the beginning of 2025, gold has already risen in price by more than 45%. This impressive surge was made possible by record demand from global central banks and the easing of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve, which has already begun cutting interest rates.
It was previously reported that the exchange price of gold had set a record high, reaching $3,750 per ounce. Russia's international reserves also recorded a record increase for the week of September 12–19, increasing by $7.5 billion and reaching a new all-time high.
Later, according to data from September 29, December gold futures rose by 1% and set a new record, reaching $3,847 per ounce.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will begin a five-month prison term in Paris next week for conspiring to secure Gaddafi regime funds for his election campaign. pic.twitter.com/U8CJQlN46u
I thought only Europe did this. Amazing that Canada got some good laws passed for once.
[Algemeiner] A court in North Bay, Ontario, sentenced Kenneth Paulin, 51, to nine months behind bars and two years of probation after finding him guilty of willfully promoting hatred against Jews and "condoning, denying, or downplaying the Holocaust." Crown prosecutors confirmed that the ruling on Sept. 18 marked the first time in Canadian history that someone has received imprisonment specifically for denying the historical reality of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people.
The conviction followed a seven-month investigation by the North Bay Police Service’s Criminal Investigation Section. Police said they launched the probe in November 2024 after receiving complaints about Paulin’s online posting. Following multiple warrants and a request to Ontario’s Attorney General for formal approval, law enforcement arrested and charged Paulin in June.
Authorities said his assortment of social media posts and videos targeted Jews with slurs, conspiracy theories, and calls to violence. He called Jews "demons" and said they are "to blame for every American who falls." He condemned Jews as responsible for "almost 100 percent" of the world’s problems. He even called for a "Worldwide Jew Hunt" and said that "antisemitism is the only thing that can save the world." In one video he titled "Their victim card gets permanently denied as the hollow-cost-Hoax is exposed" he mocked the Holocaust as a "hoax," while another post read, "Six million didn’t happen, but it should’ve."
In a community impact submission to the court, Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, senior director of policy and advocacy at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC), described the content as "an orchestrated effort to spread hatred, to normalize antisemitism, and to encourage others to view Jews as enemies to be mocked, hunted, and destroyed."
Kirzner-Roberts said that "the vile antisemitism we are confronting today has inflicted deep and lasting harm on Jewish Canadians, the minority group most frequently targeted by hate crimes in this country. But it’s important to note that such hatred does not end with Jews — it corrodes our democracy, emboldens extremists, and threatens the values that hold Canada together."
The statement praised those who had investigated, charged, and prosecuted Paulin.
"We are grateful to police, the Attorney General, and Crown prosecutors for ensuring this precedent-setting case was pursued with the seriousness it deserves. We are also pleased that a jail sentence has been handed down, not only for the incitement of hatred against Jews, but also for the denial and glorification of the Holocaust," Kirzner-Roberts stated. "By standing firmly against such hateful rhetoric, this ruling affirms that every Canadian deserves to live with dignity, safety and freedom, free from intimidation, dehumanization, and fear."
The North Bay Police Service stressed that the case was a reflection of the impact that hate crimes can have on a community. Acting Deputy Chief Jeff Warner said the investigation demonstrated "the great work being done by the officers in our Criminal Investigation Section" and emphasized a commitment to "sending the message that hate has no place in today’s society."
Canada’s Criminal Code has long criminalized the "willful promotion of hatred" under Section 319, but until recently it did not explicitly single out Holocaust denial. That changed in 2022, when the Canadian Parliament adopted Bill C-19, a budget law that added a new subsection, 319(2.1), making it a crime to "willfully promote antisemitism by condoning, denying, or downplaying the Holocaust." The amendment carries a maximum of two years’ imprisonment.
The statute defines the Holocaust as "the planned and deliberate state-sponsored persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazis and their collaborators," and applies to public communications outside private conversation.
With the new subsection, Canada joins a group of countries that explicitly outlaw Holocaust denial. In Germany, Section 130 of the criminal code (Volksverhetzung) makes denial, trivialization, or glorification of the Nazi genocide punishable by up to five years in prison. In France, the 1990 Gayssot Act criminalizes questioning crimes against humanity, including the Holocaust. Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and Romania are among the other countries with similar laws. A 2021 study by the European Parliament noted wide variation in enforcement but confirmed that the principle is well-established in Europe that Holocaust denial is not protected speech but a form of incitement.
Paulin’s conviction reflects the continued proliferation of Holocaust denial propaganda, which can often reflect the paradoxical sentiment of rejecting the historicity of the Nazis’ crimes against humanity, while simultaneously wishing they had occurred, as the convict revealed in his posting "Six million didn’t happen, but it should’ve."
A UNESCO report in 2022 found that 16.2 percent of Holocaust-related content on major social media platforms involved denial or distortion. On fringe platforms, the proportion rose to 49 percent. The United Nations has warned that social media continues to amplify denial narratives, feeding extremist propaganda and violent ideologies.
In Canada, antisemitic hate crimes have spiked to new highs. According to an annual audit by B’nai Brith Canada, there were 5,791 incidents reported in 2023, with nearly half occurring online. Jews remain the religious minority most frequently targeted by hate crimes in the country.
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Canuckistan's kindly insistence
On dulling the pain of existence
Annoyed Herb McCoy
As redundant. His joy?
Blowing smoke with the utmost persistence.
["Vive la Résistance!"]
Ashley J. Tellis, an Indian-born senior fellow and Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. as well as a former staffer on the White House National Security Council under President George W. Bush, has been arrested on… pic.twitter.com/YVUNXhvsq2
…arrested on federal charges of “unlawful retention of national defence information” after a raid on his home this last weekend by the FBI uncovered thousands of highly-sensitive pages labeled both TOP SECRET and SECRET, including documents on tactics, techniques and procedures by the U.S. Air Force.
According to an affidavit filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Tellis held a Top Secret Security Slearance with access to “Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)” through his work as an unpaid senior adviser at the U.S. State Department and as a contractor with the Department of Defence's Office of Net Assessment. During the search of his home, classified documents that Tellis had printed himself or had co-workers print, before smuggling them home in briefcases, were found in filing cabinets, on a desk and inside trash bags in the basement of home in Washington.
The affidavit states that Tellis removed documents from classified spaces on multiple occasions, including an incident on September 25, during which Tellis accessed the State Department's “Classnet” Network, which handles information at a Secret Classification. While in the network, he opened a PDF file “that referred to U.S. Air Force tactics, techniques and procedures”, originally titled with a reference to adversary fighter aircraft and marked ‘Secret’. He then “re-saved the document, changing the file name to ‘Econ Reform’”, before printing sections of it in batches. He then opened and printed two additional U.S. Air Force Weapons School documents “concerning military aircraft capabilities,” both marked Secret.
In addition, the affidavit further claims that since 2022, Tellis met at least four times with government officials of the People's Republic of China, including a dinner in September 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia, where Tellis arrived “with a manila envelope” and Chinese officials “entered the restaurant with a gift bag.” During another dinner in April 2023, Tellis and the officials “were overheard talking about Iranian-Chinese relations and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence”.
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Not China but I'd bet those autonomous trucks were Made in China and plenty more are ready to be shipped to Long Beach.
After looking at Skidmark's link I'd say that Western business leaders should be terrified.
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Spent a while in LA recently. Got pretty good at messing with the light-eyed little delivery buggies (and the lunatic locals who really do call them by name). The equally ubiquitous Waymos... not so much. That's a done deal, and I feel like a sap for having tried to whistle past the junkyard for so long.
[FOXNEWS] The Army is launching a sweeping new nuclear program to generate power for bases across the globe, particularly in remote or contested locations where fuel might be difficult to obtain, Fox News Digital has learned.
"Hundreds of millions" of dollars will be funneled into the project known as the Janus Program over the next five years, according to Dr. Jeff Waksman, the Army official leading the effort, to install next-generation commercial microreactors at military sites.
"Great power conflict is defined by who can move their resources around," Waksman said. Energy demands are only set to increase as modern warfare trends toward drones, directed-energy weapons and artificial intelligence. And as war planners prepare for a potential battlefront in the Indo-Pacific with China, "our ability to move energy around the oceans has never been more challenged," he said.
"It is an immense challenge in terms of providing 24/7 power. Military bases right now are powered entirely by fossil fuels. It is not possible with current technology to provide 24/7 power with solar, wind, and batteries," Waksman said. "So the only solution to the tyranny of fuel that exists now is nuclear power."
The new plan follows an executive order President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... signed earlier this year directing the Department of War to begin operating an Army-regulated nuclear reactor at a U.S. military installation by September 2028.
The initiative will be led by the Department of the Army, designated as the executive agent for the mission. Waksman described Janus as a "real hardware program" aimed at delivering tangible energy capacity rather than a policy concept. "There have been a lot of nuclear projects in the past that peaked at the blurb," he said. "That is not what this is."
Under Janus, the Army will partner with the Defense Innovation Unit and the Department of Energy's national laboratories to oversee the design and testing of commercial microreactors. The reactors will be commercially built and operated, rather than owned by the military. To encourage private investment, the Army will use a milestone-based contracting model inspired by NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program — the same framework that helped launch the commercial space industry by funding companies like SpaceX and Boeing to reach key technical milestones instead of paying for traditional government procurement.
The Army hopes this flexible model will accelerate development, lower costs, and spur a self-sustaining market for small reactors that could eventually power both military and civilian infrastructure.
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This is not new, originally the idea was to use nuclear submarine power plant designs as the starting point for shipping container sized nuclear power plants.
Personally, I like the idea of using smaller molten salt reactors using thoriumas the fuel. This seems to be a much safer design as if nothing is done to prevent 'run away' reaction, the reaction will naturally die.
Fighters, who were hiding in a truck bed, armed with UWSA-made 7.62x39mm "Wa-81" assault rifles and domestic MG-1 hand grenades. pic.twitter.com/48Fhxv8Z3r
[IsraelTimes] For 2 years, dictator’s military ordered bodies moved from a known mass grave to secret desert location; witness accounts suggest new site may hold tens of thousands of remains
Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a Rooters investigation has found.
The conspiracy by the then-Syrian president’s military to excavate the mass grave in Qutayfah and create an enormous second mass grave in the desert outside the town of Dhumair has not been previously reported.
To uncover the location of the Dhumair grave site and detail the vast operation, Rooters spoke to 13 people with direct knowledge of the two-year effort to move the bodies, reviewed documents produced by officials involved, and analyzed hundreds of satellite images of both grave sites taken over the course of several years.
The operation to transfer bodies from Qutayfah to another hidden site dozens of kilometers away was called "Operation Move Earth," and it lasted from 2019 until 2021. The purpose of the operation was to cover up the Assad government’s crimes and help restore its image, the witnesses said.
Rooters informed the government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa of the findings of this investigation on Tuesday. The government didn’t immediately respond to questions for this report.
The news agency isn’t revealing the site’s precise location here, to reduce the likelihood that intruders may tamper with the grave. A forthcoming Rooters special report will detail the story of how the Assad government executed the clandestine operation and how news hounds uncovered the scheme.
With at least 34 trenches measuring 2 kilometers long, the grave in the Dhumair desert is among the most extensive created during the Syrian civil war, Rooters has found. Witness accounts and the dimensions of the new site suggest that tens of thousands of people could be buried there.
Assad’s government began burying the dead at Qutayfah around 2012, early in the civil war. The mass grave contained the bodies of soldiers and prisoners who died in the dictator’s prisons and military hospitals, the witnesses said.
A Syrian human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist exposed Qutayfah by releasing photos to local media in 2014, revealing the grave’s existence and its general location on the outskirts of Damascus. Its precise location came to light a few years later, in court testimony and other media reports.
For four nights nearly every week from February 2019 to April 2021, six to eight trucks filled with dirt and human remains traveled from Qutayfah to the Dhumair desert site, according to the witnesses involved in the operation. Rooters could not confirm if bodies from elsewhere also arrived at the secret site and found no documentation mentioning Operation Move Earth or mass graves more generally.
Everyone directly involved vividly recalled the stench, including two truckers, three mechanics, a bulldozer operator and a former officer from Assad’s elite Elite Republican Guard who was involved from the earliest days of the transfer.
Assad, who is in Russia, and several military officials identified by witnesses as playing key roles in the operation couldn’t be reached for comment. After the dictatorship’s fall late last year, Assad and many of his aides fled the country.
The idea to move thousands of bodies came into being in late 2018, when Assad was verging on victory in Syria’s civil war, said the former Elite Republican Guard officer. The dictator was hoping to regain international recognition after being sidelined by years of sanctions and allegations of brutality, the officer said. At the time, Assad had already been accused of detaining Syrians by the thousands. But no independent Syrian groups or international organizations had access to the prisons or the mass graves.
Two truckers and the officer told Rooters they were told by military commanders that the point of the transfer was to clear out the Qutayfah mass grave and hide evidence of mass killings.
By the time Assad fell, all 16 trenches documented at Qutayfah by Rooters had been emptied.
More than 160,000 people disappeared into the deposed dictator’s vast security apparatus and are believed to be buried in the dozens of mass graves he created, according to Syrian rights groups. Organized excavation and DNA analysis could help trace what happened to them, easing one of Syria’s most painful faultlines.
But with few resources in Syria, even well-known mass graves are largely unprotected and unexcavated. And the country’s new leaders, who overthrew Assad in December, have released no documentation about the individuals buried in them, despite repeated calls from the families of the missing.
Syrian Emergency and Disaster Management Minister Raed al-Saleh has said the sheer number of victims and the need to rebuild the justice system hinder the work. Syria’s new National Commission for Missing People has announced plans to create a DNA bank and a centralized digital platform for families of the missing, and said there is an urgent need to train specialists in forensic medicine and DNA testing.
"There is a bleeding wound as long as there are mothers waiting to find the graves of their sons, wives waiting to find the graves of their husbands, and children waiting to find the graves of their fathers," al-Saleh told the semi-official Syrian news site al-Watan in late August.
Mohammed Al Abdallah, head of the Syria Justice and Accountability Center, a Syrian organization that works to trace the missing and investigate war crimes, said a haphazard transfer of bodies like the one from Qutayfah to Dhumair was disastrous for grieving families.
"Piecing these bodies together so complete remains can be returned to families will be extremely complicated," Al Abdallah said after learning of the Rooters findings. He described the establishment of the commission for missing people as a positive step from the new government.
"It has political support, but it still lacks the resources and the experts," he said.
Drivers, mechanics and others involved in the transfer said speaking out at the time of the secret operation meant certain death.
"No one would disobey the orders," said one driver. "You yourself might end up in the holes."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
Supressor of the Damascenes...
