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The duo was spotted there on multiple nights in a row, reportedly spending between $80,000 and $100,000 during each visit.
Internal investigators with the NYPD are said to be looking into whether two detectives hired to provide security at a Manhattan townhouse where inside when two crypto businessmen allegedly completed acts of torture against their partner in a hunt for his Bitcoin password,
The service of the two officers has been "modified," the NYPD confirmed, as an internal review into their potential connection to the crypto millionaire's torturers is underway.
The tortured and wounded victim escaped John Woeltz's house of horrors in an ordeal authorities described as “The Wolf of Wall Street” meets “American Psycho."
The second suspect in the alleged kidnapping and torture of an Italian bitcoin dealer inside a SoHo townhouse was seen scowling as he was remanded without bail in court Tuesday night.
Woeltz's supposed assistant, Beatrice Folchi, 24, was also taken into custody in relation to the crime and faces one count of first-degree kidnapping and one count of first-degree unlawful imprisonment.
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Daily Voice on MSNWilliam Duplessie, John Woeltz Charged In Bitcoin KidnappingA second suspect was arrested in connection with a twisted kidnapping and torture plot that played out inside a luxury New York City townhouse that was all over stolen Bitcoin, prosecutors said. William Duplessie,
The pair of hard-partying crypto bros accused of sadistically torturing an Italian millionaire lured him to New York City with the promise of returning Bitcoin they had allegedly stolen from him — only to then keep him hostage for weeks in a twisted bid to siphon the rest,