================================================================================================ CASE 046 | Nicholas Truglia | September 7, 2018 | USA ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 46 date September 7, 2018 original_date September 7, 2018 year 2018 month 9 quarter 2018-Q3 victim Nicholas Truglia location New York, New York country USA scenario Malicious Invitation - SocialEng description Friends accused of torturing pal to steal his cryptocurrency kidnappings 0 violence_torture 1 drugs_alcohol 1 weapons 0 theft 1 life_taken 0 money_wanted (null) coin_type (null) reports NY post notes his "friends" tortured him and stole a laptop, a small pendrive like device and a phone has_processed_date 1 created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45 (flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. 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AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources] **Victim:** Nicholas Truglia **Attackers:** Known associate(s) who betrayed victim **Attack Method:** Malicious Invitation - SocialEng **Violence Used:** Physical violence, drugging **Crypto Stolen:** Amount not disclosed **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://nypost.com/2018/11/06/friends-accused-of-torturing-pal-to-steal-his-cryptocurrency/ NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 47: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source NY post URL https://nypost.com/2018/11/06/friends-accused-of-torturing-pal-to-steal-his-cryptocurrency/ Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 47, column "Articles" Length 2,988 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friends accused of torturing pal to steal his cryptocurrency These guys are accused of taking a “bit” out of crime. A group of young professional men ransacked their pal’s luxury apartment after a night of drinking and forced him to cough up his cryptocurrency account login information, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office charges in a new complaint. Defendant Stephen Orso, 25, allegedly demanded that Nicholas Truglia “provide him with login information for his cryptocurrency accounts while holding his head underwater in the bathtub, punching him in the stomach and throwing hot wax on him,” court papers charge. Cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin, serve as a digital medium of exchange and payment. Orso, the son of a wealthy venture capitalist, and three pals, David Leica, 19, Steven Dorn, 29, and Chris David, 25, escorted a soused Truglia to his high-rise apartment on West 42nd Street at about 2:50 a.m. on Sept. 7, according to a criminal complaint. Surveillance video shows the crew leaving about two hours later, and David appears “to be concealing a rectangular object under his sweatshirt consistent with a laptop computer,” the papers allege. Truglia, 27, told cops he woke up and realized his laptop, two mobile phones and a thumb drive containing his cryptocurrency account information were missing. The complaint doesn’t say whether the men, who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles in online posts, hacked into Truglia’s cryptocurrency account or stole any funds. Nor does it say which currency network he uses. The next day, Truglia pinged his iPhone and it allegedly showed up in the vicinity of an apartment shared by the defendants. Leica allegedly sent Truglia’s iPhone to him in an Uber the next day and David allegedly returned the laptop, which was splattered in wax, court papers say. Defense lawyer Stacey Richman, who represents all four defendants, said that the accusations are outright falsehoods and that Truglia has since recanted. She said that her clients were only trying to do the right thing by “helping a person who had overimbibed” get home from the club. “For his own safety, they stepped up,” she said. “I provided audio to the district attorney’s office wherein the complainant admits these allegations are false,” she maintained. “It’s disappointing that our standard of journalism does not permit the innocent to have their day in court and slanders them upon accusation.” The jet-setting defendants’ social media accounts show them consorting with celebrities, including bad-boy quarterback Johnny Manziel and superstar Knicks player Kristaps Porzingis. On Instagram, Orso, Leica and Dorn are shown smiling in front of a private jet and in dozens of photographs while posing with a string of stunning models at clubs and red-carpet events. The defendants are each charged with one count of second-degree burglary. The four men were all released without bail. They are due back in court March 14 to find out whether they’ve been indicted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED] !! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person. !! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article. !! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting. Source nypost.com URL https://nypost.com/2018/11/06/friends-accused-of-torturing-pal-to-steal-his-cryptocurrency/ Field url Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:55:09+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200) Language unknown Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 1-20 of 22 Length 3,072 chars Integrity sha256 f91a6d3611702f9e1809adc524acb31a07a5660f5e08ec8316dd3dbe0cee1687 Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 1-20 plus headline [0]; dropped 0 leading and 1 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 12. Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved) Friends accused of torturing pal to steal his cryptocurrency | New York Post See more of our coverage in your search results. These guys are accused of taking a “bit” out of crime. A group of young professional men ransacked their pal’s luxury apartment after a night of drinking and forced him to cough up his cryptocurrency account login information, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office charges in a new complaint. Defendant Stephen Orso, 25, allegedly demanded that Nicholas Truglia “provide him with login information for his cryptocurrency accounts while holding his head underwater in the bathtub, punching him in the stomach and throwing hot wax on him,” court papers charge. Cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin, serve as a digital medium of exchange and payment. Orso, the son of a wealthy venture capitalist, and three pals, David Leica, 19, Steven Dorn, 29, and Chris David, 25, escorted a soused Truglia to his high-rise apartment on West 42nd Street at about 2:50 a.m. on Sept. 7, according to a criminal complaint. Surveillance video shows the crew leaving about two hours later, and David appears “to be concealing a rectangular object under his sweatshirt consistent with a laptop computer,” the papers allege. Truglia, 27, told cops he woke up and realized his laptop, two mobile phones and a thumb drive containing his cryptocurrency account information were missing. The complaint doesn’t say whether the men, who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles in online posts, hacked into Truglia’s cryptocurrency account or stole any funds. Nor does it say which currency network he uses. The next day, Truglia pinged his iPhone and it allegedly showed up in the vicinity of an apartment shared by the defendants. Leica allegedly sent Truglia’s iPhone to him in an Uber the next day and David allegedly returned the laptop, which was splattered in wax, court papers say. Defense lawyer Stacey Richman, who represents all four defendants, said that the accusations are outright falsehoods and that Truglia has since recanted. She said that her clients were only trying to do the right thing by “helping a person who had overimbibed” get home from the club. “For his own safety, they stepped up,” she said. “I provided audio to the district attorney’s office wherein the complainant admits these allegations are false,” she maintained. “It’s disappointing that our standard of journalism does not permit the innocent to have their day in court and slanders them upon accusation.” The jet-setting defendants’ social media accounts show them consorting with celebrities, including bad-boy quarterback Johnny Manziel and superstar Knicks player Kristaps Porzingis. On Instagram, Orso, Leica and Dorn are shown smiling in front of a private jet and in dozens of photographs while posing with a string of stunning models at clubs and red-carpet events. The defendants are each charged with one count of second-degree burglary. The four men were all released without bail. They are due back in court March 14 to find out whether they’ve been indicted. ================================================================================================ generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 046 ================================================================================================