Newsletter: Trump continues to dismantle crypto enforcement while expanding his personal crypto empire.
Most recently, Trump has called the DOJ off cryptocurrency enforcement and dismantled the agency's crypto enforcement team.
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in reply to Molly White • • •A Monday night memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, citing Trump’s crypto executive orders, has dismantled the Department of Justice’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) and directed the agency’s Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit to “cease cryptocurrency enforcement”.
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in reply to Molly White • • •As we watch Trump dismantling cryptocurrency industry regulations and enforcement, it’s worth revisiting the extent to which he and his family personally profit from their cryptocurrency business interests, which they have been rapidly expanding.
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in reply to Molly White • • •The Acting Director of the SEC is looking to rescind or modify even more previous crypto guidance based on “recommendations from DOGE”.
And the agency has dropped even more investigations and lawsuits, including against Trump business partner Crypto.com.
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Remember how I said we’d get back to the now-dismantled National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team? Well, we have them to thank for an ongoing case against Avi Eisenberg, who was convicted of not only crypto crime but possession of CSAM. His sentencing is coming up later this week.
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in reply to Molly White • • •He’s attempting a rather novel argument for leniency in his sentencing: there’s just so much crime in crypto that he forgot it wasn’t allowed.
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in reply to Molly White • • •Elsewhere in the last remaining crypto crime cases we may see for a while, it seems Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky might be trying to weasel out of responsibility for the crimes to which he’s pleaded guilty. His sentencing is scheduled for a month from now.
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in reply to Molly White • • •In other major crypto-scam news, you may want to keep track of the $LIBRA scandal and new events unfolding:
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