Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.”
Trump is the greatest champion of crypto we've ever had.
Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.”
Trump is the greatest champion of crypto we've ever had.
Trump is a champion of winning, and the smartest man alive. Crypto has strong odds and he has the power.
Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... Trump is at his lowest point ever in either of his terms. He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever at this point in either a presidency or for a second term."
Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.”
Trump is the greatest champion of crypto we've ever had.
What's important is that this Chinese guy gets his $4 billion ($4,000,000,000) in fines back. He already did his four months in federal custody, and having a felony conviction on your jacket is no longer a big deal. But it's only just that an innocent victim of Biden's war on crypto gets his cash (green ching-$$$) back.
Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.”
Trump is the greatest champion of crypto we've ever had.
Trump is a champion of winning, and the smartest man alive. Crypto has strong odds and he has the power.
Washington Post reporting:
”The team had already seen that the Binance platform was used in the Welcome to Video case and in another big case in which hackers with North Korea's Lazarus Group had stolen crypto to fund the state's nuclear program. There was also evidence that ransomware attackers were laundering their take through the platform. By law, Binance should have flagged these suspicious activities and notified U.S. authorities. It hadn't. Nor did it follow know-your-customer rules that require clients to provide identity documents before opening an account. All Binance required was an email address. Koopman's team started to collect data, filing the financial equivalents of search warrants on Google and Amazon Web Services for all records dealing with Binance transactions. Rutkowski came up with the idea of searching calls to the AWS help desk, since anyone calling had to give a name and location. "We weren't ready for the magnitude of data that came in," Koopman says. They looked for user IDs from Iran, IP addresses from regions under U.S. sanctions such as Syria and Crimea. They learned that Binance staff had called U.S. customers they'd flagged as VIPs and offered to set up accounts for them that would make it look as though they weren't in the United States subject to its strict regulations and to owing U.S. taxes. Internal company chats revealed that high-level employees knew exactly what they were doing. "We need a banner," one compliance executive wrote. "Is washing drug money too hard these days come to Binance we got cake for you." Zhao knew all this. He told his executives that it was "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" and that they should put growth and profits over obeying laws that would drive criminal customers and their illicit cash away.”
Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.”
Trump is the greatest champion of crypto we've ever had.
Trump is a champion of winning, and the smartest man alive. Crypto has strong odds and he has the power.
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”The team had already seen that the Binance platform was used in the Welcome to Video case and in another big case in which hackers with North Korea's Lazarus Group had stolen crypto to fund the state's nuclear program. There was also evidence that ransomware attackers were laundering their take through the platform. By law, Binance should have flagged these suspicious activities and notified U.S. authorities. It hadn't. Nor did it follow know-your-customer rules that require clients to provide identity documents before opening an account. All Binance required was an email address. Koopman's team started to collect data, filing the financial equivalents of search warrants on Google and Amazon Web Services for all records dealing with Binance transactions. Rutkowski came up with the idea of searching calls to the AWS help desk, since anyone calling had to give a name and location. "We weren't ready for the magnitude of data that came in," Koopman says. They looked for user IDs from Iran, IP addresses from regions under U.S. sanctions such as Syria and Crimea. They learned that Binance staff had called U.S. customers they'd flagged as VIPs and offered to set up accounts for them that would make it look as though they weren't in the United States subject to its strict regulations and to owing U.S. taxes. Internal company chats revealed that high-level employees knew exactly what they were doing. "We need a banner," one compliance executive wrote. "Is washing drug money too hard these days come to Binance we got cake for you." Zhao knew all this. He told his executives that it was "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" and that they should put growth and profits over obeying laws that would drive criminal customers and their illicit cash away.”
CNBC quote: "In their desire to punish the cryptocurrency industry, the Biden Administration pursued Mr. Zhao despite no allegations of fraud or identifiable victims”
Basically, it was sanctioned for not wasting a ton of time and resources in checking everything. Who cares?
Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... Trump is at his lowest point ever in either of his terms. He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever at this point in either a presidency or for a second term."
Trump is a champion of winning, and the smartest man alive. Crypto has strong odds and he has the power.
Zhao knew all this. He told his executives that it was "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" and that they should put growth and profits over obeying laws that would drive criminal customers and their illicit cash away.”
Zhao knew all this. He told his executives that it was "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" and that they should put growth and profits over obeying laws that would drive criminal customers and their illicit cash away.”
”The team had already seen that the Binance platform was used in the Welcome to Video case and in another big case in which hackers with North Korea's Lazarus Group had stolen crypto to fund the state's nuclear program. There was also evidence that ransomware attackers were laundering their take through the platform. By law, Binance should have flagged these suspicious activities and notified U.S. authorities. It hadn't. Nor did it follow know-your-customer rules that require clients to provide identity documents before opening an account. All Binance required was an email address. Koopman's team started to collect data, filing the financial equivalents of search warrants on Google and Amazon Web Services for all records dealing with Binance transactions. Rutkowski came up with the idea of searching calls to the AWS help desk, since anyone calling had to give a name and location. "We weren't ready for the magnitude of data that came in," Koopman says. They looked for user IDs from Iran, IP addresses from regions under U.S. sanctions such as Syria and Crimea. They learned that Binance staff had called U.S. customers they'd flagged as VIPs and offered to set up accounts for them that would make it look as though they weren't in the United States subject to its strict regulations and to owing U.S. taxes. Internal company chats revealed that high-level employees knew exactly what they were doing. "We need a banner," one compliance executive wrote. "Is washing drug money too hard these days come to Binance we got cake for you." Zhao knew all this. He told his executives that it was "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" and that they should put growth and profits over obeying laws that would drive criminal customers and their illicit cash away.”
CNBC quote: "In their desire to punish the cryptocurrency industry, the Biden Administration pursued Mr. Zhao despite no allegations of fraud or identifiable victims”
Basically, it was sanctioned for not wasting a ton of time and resources in checking everything. Who cares?
Nobody cares! That's the whole point of crypto -- its none of anyone's goddam business who is doing what to whom with it. Molon hash. Keep your dirty hands off my crypto.
A radical leftist african american immigrant named Elon Musk attacks the WH as being incompetent and stupid:
“Having a NASA Administrator who knows literally ZERO about rockets & spacecraft undermines the American space program and endangers our astronauts,” Musk said in an X post on Wednesday.
Zhao knew all this. He told his executives that it was "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" and that they should put growth and profits over obeying laws that would drive criminal customers and their illicit cash away.”