{
  "id": 15578970,
  "title": "A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted over 240 crypto fraud websites (Bloomberg)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/a-profile-of-alona-katz-chief-of-brooklyn-das-virtual-currency-unit",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-19T07:45:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-17/how-a-brooklyn-crypto-cop-cracked-a-global-scam-network?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MjI5NDg2MSwiZXhwIjoxNzkyODk5NjYxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTjIxS09LSVVQUzQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwNEFGQkMxQkYyMTA0NUVEODg3MzQxQkQwQzIyNzRBMCJ9.TJtB0IVDmFtu-rsX1kq0V9O0320Ah0eRWmDK4POOkFE"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Crypto scams cost Americans more than $11 billion last year. A Brooklyn prosecutor found a way to hit the networks behind them.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}