The man suspected of kidnapping and torturing an Italian man over a crypto dispute suffered his own indignity when he was arrested -- his bathrobe came undone.
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00:00so Kieran you're an artist across the street and you were telling me the story
00:06of this guy coming out in his bathrobe would you mind telling it one more time
00:10so yeah so he came he came out in his bathrobe barefoot and handcuffed and escorted by two
00:21police officers NYPD police department and they put him into a squad car here
00:28and brought him down to the fifth precinct in Chinatown I believe you you actually got a
00:38look at him is there anything particularly you remember about him coming out in the bathroom
00:41he was a good-looking dude his he was his role was came undone when he when the police were
00:50carrying him down the stairs and they had to redo it for him had to bundle them up at the
00:58bundle them up and what do you make of the whole thing of him being accused of kidnapping
01:02somebody in cryptocurrency terrible I mean at the time we had no idea why he was being arrested
01:07after no idea but when we found that when we saw that the constant police presence here we knew it
01:17was something extraordinary and I found out from various journalists who were interviewing me and I
01:26said well you know what the hell is going on and they said oh this guy tortured and kidnapped and
01:31tortured this Italian tourist moved him to his apart to his house and tortured him to try and get his
01:43password to his crypto account so it's all about money which is totally disgusting that disgusted me
01:50the fact that you know the fact that you know this guy persecuted the guy for money he himself
01:59being like the rental not the space order is like about 40 grand a month so is that guy hurting for
02:05money I doubt it so that disgusted me and it still does and I hope he I hope he does hard time when
02:14know if he's broke down he's so if he's broke down you
02:20you