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Bangladesh Bank Heist Now Involves Casinos

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During a money laundering hearing at the Senate in Manila on Tuesday (March 29), Kim Wong, a Chinese resident of the Philippines and casino junket operator, denied any involvement with the scheme and said two high-rollers from Beijing and Macau brought the stolen funds into the country, Reuters reported. Wong confirmed he would return $4.63

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CanPay: Solving Pot’s Payments Problem

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The Cole Memo , issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice, lays out the guidelines under which financial institutions can offer compliant financial services (like bank accounts) to businesses operating dispensaries in states where it is legal to sell medicinal and/or recreational marijuana. in fact, there are fewer than two dozen.

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Why Tech Fails Can (Sometimes) Be Inconveniently Fun

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13, 2018, an emergency alert text went out all over Hawaii telling residents and tourists that an incoming ballistic missile attack was imminent, tipping off waves of panic and terror as people scrambled for cover. In short, the system thought May was Batman and locked him out of his house as a security precaution.

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The Eclipse Is Coming! So Much To See, So Much To Buy

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And even in the remaining 36 states where the sky won’t go completely dark, Americans from Hawaii to Maine will be able to see a partial eclipse. If the people managed to hold it together enough to not kill the king, the king’s stunt double would be executed anyway, and the real one would go back to his place on the throne.

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