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Later, according to a federal indictment filed in 2016, he threatened to extort the traffickers for the Bitcoin equivalent of $80,000. Under the pseudonym “Bill,” he said he would take $20,000, send it to offshore accounts, and return it clean. In 2017 he told The Telegraph that he saw him as a father figure and in an interview with Tatler in 2024 he jokingly referred to him as “Daddy.” The bond between the two men has become the subject of intense interest in Britain in recent weeks, following revelations in The Sunday Times of London that Mr. Cottrell was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago two years later that it became clear the drug dealers he had met in Las Vegas were actually I.R.S. agents conducting a sting. Farage with undisclosed gifts and support before the 2024 general election.
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