India, June 29 -- Nancy Guthrie Breaking News Today: TMZ founder Harvey Levin revealed that the FBI instructed him to "stand down" after he offered to pay a Bitcoin ransom to an anonymous tipster claiming to have crucial evidence regarding the high-profile kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie.

Nancy Guthrie Breaking News Today: TMZ Agrees to Send Bitcoin Ransom

Levin reached out to federal investigators with a plan to pay one Bitcoin (valued at roughly $60,000 to $67,000), requested by a persistent email tipster. Levin proposed funding the transaction as part of a TMZ documentary project to "follow the path" of the cryptocurrency and trace the perpetrators.

Levin claimed that afte...