[dennisw]

Crypto gangsters -thieves tortured a crypto bro to get his password.

[No name given]

These crypto bros deserve serious prison time.

[jjotto]

Better story names names:

https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/kentucky-crypto-investor-allegedly-tortured-captive-italian-tourist-for-weeks-in-luxury-nyc-apartment-sources/

[ConservaTexan]

No names and blurred faces. Ridiculous.

[Thank You Rush]

“”the men took Polaroid photographs””

POLAROID? Technology ignorant?

[texas booster]

Weeks!!

Two to three weeks in actual time, but the Post makes it sound like forever.

At least they didn’t make him watch The View.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A few years ago something like this happened but since there was a woman involve some people claimed that they "didn't buy it" and it was all consensual.

Wonder if they will claim that in this case as well.

[Honorary Serb]

The crypto world is full of gangsters!

[Beowulf9]

Why the heck are they calling these guys ‘the crypto bros’ ? Is that their logo or something? It’s on all their shirts?

[piasa]

I don’t understand why no one is named.

Very weird.

Do they have some sort of diplomatic cover or what?

[BobL]

“Moment wealthy ‘crypto bros’ are dragged out of their stunning NYC mansion for kidnapping and torturing their business partner for WEEKS”

That’s why I never got into crypto - just too violent.

[piasa]

The Italian guy had done business with the peep before.

Weird to call it a gang when it sounds only like a guy, a gal and two butlers.

[Albion Wilde]

committing sickening acts on him in the $75,000-per-month rented brownstone in Soho.

Uh, looks like red brick townhouse to me.

[Albion Wilde]

I blame Hollywood. Not kidding. Who would even think of these horrible tortures in civilian life if not for the flood of ghastly images pumped up with computer-aided sound effects and loud music?

I say this as an old person who clearly remembers living in an America in which editorial control of media was not regarded as an abridgement of freedom of speech; but rather a quality measure over not just the content, but the effects of the content on society.

Then came the numerous obscenity lawsuits from Playboy, Hustler, etc., that opened the floodgates.

People who study media academically or statistically have long established that media imagery does produce copycat activities.

[lowbridge]

I understand greed, but I still dont understand why these guys would do this. It seems to me that these crypto guys are wealthy enough in their own right to where they can afford the exorbitant rent on this place. Unless maybe they have had a massive downturn in their fortunes where they have just lost or about to lose their accumulated wealth and so, resorted to this.