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scheme. $700 million, a plot that apparently enabled criminals to traffic drugs and steal people s money and their identities on the crypto platform. watch. today s law enforcement actions put all of those who seek to exploit the cryptocurrency ecosystem on notice, that the department of justice would use every tool, working along with our partners, every tool that we have, to attack the criminal use of the dark net, and cryptocurrency. this new move from the d.o.j. comes as we re seeing a lot of attention from crypto, and not just from investigators but also from lawmakers because there is some controversy around the industry. as you probably know, i want to bring in nbc news justice and in tenl correspondent ken dilanian with us now, talk about this arrest here and stepping back, big picture, what it all says about crackdowns against crypto
still boil water notices across the city. people still reporting murky brown water coming out of their faucets, still relying on bottled water for drinking, even to bathe in. but the attention around this crisis and the resources that people in jackson need, those are fading fast with donations and volunteers getting harder to come by. think about last year. we saw long lines for stockpiles of bottled water. but now, a community organizer is telling nbc news, things are way different, saying in their words there is still a fight to give people this basic necessity. i want to bring in yamiche alcindor who has been all over this. this didn t just spring up overnight, it has been building for years. 80% of the community is black. how is it that we have to get on here, on the news, and say still happening months later. how is that possible? it is heart breaking it is still happening, it is still happening because there are
of remaining mum on some of these details still seems to be in place. outside the white house, carol lee, thank you. some new exclusive reporting from nbc news now, showing former president trump and his staff are hard at work to try to get his facebook account put back in place. you know that meta, which now owns facebook, the parent company of facebook, banned donald trump the day after the january 6th insurrection. pointing out it was mr. trump s instigation leading up to the attack that violated fibromyalgia s policies. two years late violated facebook s policies. two years later, that is due up for review. and in a letter obtained by nbc, we believe that the ban on president trump s account on facebook has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse. the former president faced a similar ban on twitter which was reversed back in november after elon musk took over the company. let me bring in now one of the reporters who got the exclusive reporting. john allen, s
at this time. we should have a better understanding whether he intends to plead guilty, not guilty, whether bail will be set, one of our colleagues on our digital nbc news.com team spoke with some neighbors who are hoping that bail is not provided here, as an opportunity, saying is dangerous. and when you look at the 15 counts that prosecuted laid out and filed against solomon pena, it is understandable. looking at counts including felony, in possession of a firearm, shooting at an occupied dwelling, shooting from a motor vehicle. attempted aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, conspiracy, criminal solicitation. this is already a convicted felon who previously served seven years in jail. and now, when you go and listen to the lawmakers and several of whom you have talked to as well, i just got back from being down the road at debbie o malley, who is one of the county commissioners, who was visited at her driveway, by solomon pena in the days after his election defeat in november, i