Escaped workers were beaten and tased before being dragged back, witnesses recount.
Chairman of Prince Group Indicted for Operating Cambodian Forced Labor
An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging Cambodian national Chen Zhi, also known as Vincent, 37, the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group (Prince Group), a multinational business conglomerate based in Cambodia, with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy for directing Prince Group’s operation of forced-labor scam
Hong Kong Justice Department Applies for Order to Freeze Prince Group Assets
The Hong Kong Justice Department requested a “restraint order” on alleged Prince Group associates and companies. The U.S. and U.K. have sanctioned the Cambodian conglomerate amid allegations of cyberfraud.
Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
Prince Group-linked businesses raided in international money-laundering probe
Ableton and Amiga are being probed by police in the Isle of Man as part of a larger investigation.
Part I: Chinese courts go after ‘notorious’ Cambodian conglomerate
Under Cambodian patronage, the Prince Group netted billions; Chinese courts accuse it of massive money laundering.
Punished by Victor M Rios | East Bay Booksellers
Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association2012 Finalist, C.
Cambodia's Prince Group: A business empire built on crime?
Our three part investigative series reveals a concerning blend of improbable business ventures, alleged criminality and political cronyism — charges the Prince Group denies.
How Sweeping Sanctions Missed a Business Partner of the Alleged Head of a Major Asian Crime Organization
The U.S. and U.K. froze many assets of the “Prince Group Transnational Criminal Organization.” But one man sanctioned as an alleged associate has amassed properties and companies using a different identity.
McMartin preschool trial
The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983, with arrests and the pretrial investigation taking place from 1984 to 1987, and trials running from 1987 to 1990. The case lasted seven years but resulted in no convictions, and all charges were dropped in 1990. By the case's end, it had become the longest and most expensive series of criminal trials in American history.
Syracuse University Intervenes to Block Subpoena of Police Records — ProPublica
The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many records with a student who was assaulted in 1987.
Exclusive: ICE agents investigated for sexual assault, bribery, drug smuggling
Records obtained by Newsweek reveal 148 allegations of misconduct and potential crimes.
On Torturing LLMs
a conversation with Parth Agrawal about play, ritual, and the weird edges of LLM interactions
Arizona Exploiting Prisoner Labor for Profit | Prison Legal News
A new constitutional amendment proposed to Congress in June 2023 would remove the exception for prisoners to the U.S. ban on slavery. The effort follows a report from Arizona in December 2022, which found that private firms in the state used over two dozen undocumented migrant workers they could never legally hire but for the fact they were incarcerated by the state Department of Correction, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR).
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
Cambodia Extradites Another Associate of Alleged ‘Criminal’ Conglomerate to China
Chinese state media reported the extradition of Li Xiong from Cambodia, alleging he is a “core backbone member” of the Prince Group. The Cambodia-based conglomerate has been accused of involvement in cyber-scams and human trafficking.
