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  "id": 14507321,
  "title": "Brooklyn DA Shuts Down Multi-Million Dollar Crypto Scam Operation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/brooklyn-da-shuts-down-multi-million-dollar-crypto-scam-operation",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-14T18:19:54.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/fraud-prevention/2026/brooklyn-da-shuts-down-multi-million-dollar-crypto-scam-operation/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Brooklyn’s district attorney’s office says it has disrupted a multinational cryptocurrency fraud operation targeting Russians in the U.S. The investigation by the office’s Virtual Currency Unit (VCU) and the FBI culminated in the seizure of 241 web domains and 112 servers, which revealed the millions of dollars lost by the Russian community in Brooklyn, New […] The post Brooklyn DA Shuts Down…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}