Posted on 05/24/2025 8:48:45 AM PDT by dennisw
A gang of wealthy 'crypto bros' have been arrested for luring their former business partner to a stunning New York City mansion before torturing him for weeks.
The group are accused of kidnapping the 28-year-old Italian man before committing sickening acts on him in the $75,000-per-month rented brownstone in Soho.
They alleged to have Tazed him, pistol-whipped him and threatened to carve him up with a chainsaw if he did not give up the millions of dollars in his crypto account.
But their plot was foiled when the victim - who has not been named - escaped and flagged down traffic to save him and call the police.
On Friday morning cops swooped on the mansion and dragged out at least one of the suspects, who was draped in a white bath robe.
The victim said the nightmare began on May 6 when he arrived in Manhattan from Italy after being lured by the false promises of an business opportunity.
Instead, he claimed the group confiscated his passport and turned the luxurious apartment into a house of horrors for weeks.
The 'crypto bros' are accused of binding him with electrical cords and other forms of shock torture - including using a Taser while his feet were submerged in water.
The men were also alleged to have pistol-whipped him and threatened to sever off his limbs with an electric chainsaw.
Police said the men took Polaroid photographs of themselves torturing him - one showing him bound to a chair with a gun pressed to his head.
The photos, authorities believe, were likely intended to extort money from either the victim or his family back in Italy.
The men also reportedly forced him into taking drugs - including cocaine - and imposed mental torment upon him, repeatedly insisting he would never escape.
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This is dirt nap worthy evil. It would be a travesty if this POS doesn’t die in prison, at the very least.
Another friend was close to Maria Martarella. She also went missing. She left to go to work and was abducted. We had been praying she would be found safe. They discovered her body on the golf course, dumped in the high weeds, several days later.
That was back in 85, if memory serves.
Don’t know if that creep was ever caught.
Another dirt-nap worthy level of evil.
You are the very, very rare freeper who will concede a point after second consideration! Congratulations and thank you!
“”She was a beautiful, funny, vivacious girl before. She was never the same after.
Sorry, I can’t joke about this stuff.””
Just know that.... there is a special place in Hell for cretins like that. They will pay dearly... in God’s own time (eternity). And your friend is now in a better place than we are.
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