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A man with a bitcoin fortune was allegedly tortured for weeks in a New York City home. Here's what we know.

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Two cryptocurrency investors have been charged with kidnapping, assault and unlawful imprisonment in the case.

The 28-year-old man managed to escape from his alleged captors on May 23 in the affluent SoHo neighborhood in Manhattan .

The suspects allegedly cut his leg with a saw, forced him to smoke crack cocaine and urinated on him during his captivity.

Two NYPD detectives were assigned to the security detail for New York City Mayor Eric Adams .

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