The FBI announced Friday that it has arrested Ryan James Wedding, a wanted fugitive and former Olympic snowboarder accused of operating a drug-smuggling empire backed by crypto. Wedding, a Canadian national, was accused in 2024 by the U.S. Department of Justice of managing a cocaine trafficking operation running from Colombia, through Mexico, and into the United States. Wedding and his business partners also orchestrated numerous murders as part of that operation, the prosecutors alleged. The DOJ and the Treasury Department have claimed that Wedding and his employees relied on the stablecoin Tether (USDT) to fuel ... (full story)