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Freezing assets and recovering them are two very different things. North Korea has a history of using stolen cryptocurrency to circumvent international sanctions and finance its activities.

— Roman Bieda, chief intelligence officer at the Swiss blockchain intelligence company Recoveris, told CBS News.

The figures clearly show: Audi urgently needs to take action, and there is no time to lose.

— Jürgen Rittersberger, Audi’s Chief Financial Officer, on the company’s financial situation.

“Demanding such a declaration shows an absurd understanding of democracy; it makes a mockery of our values and tramples on the rights of members of parliament. This is wholly unacceptable. We need a change of personnel at the top so we can clear our heads and become fully capable of acting again.”— Alexander Räuscher, a former CDU member of the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt, criticized the demand for a sworn declaration in comments to WELT and called for a change of leadership in the parliamentary group.

Danny is serving a life sentence for crimes he did not commit. No one in California, not defendants and not victims who have actually been the victim of a sex crime, is safer by virtue of today’s unfortunate decision.

— Cliff Gardner, Masterson’s lead appellate lawyer, said in a statement responding to the denial of the appeal.

“I give it better than a 50% chance of passing. Will all the Democrats vote for it? I think the answer to that is yes. And then the second question is, do I get a handful of Republicans? And I think they’re probably more inclined in the lame-duck session to vote for it than they were before their campaigns were over.”— Thomas Massie, discussing the prospects for a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth; quoted by Roll Call.

“They’re back, again. It would almost be funny if it weren’t such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice, one that we cannot become numb to.”— James Comey said this in a video posted on Monday, responding to the latest investigation against him.