Emergency Pod! Tether executives facing DOJ bank fraud probe (via Bloomberg) | E1253
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's an emergency broadcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Tether is being investigated by the Department of Justice. |
| 0:09.0 | I repeat, Tether is being investigated by the Department of Justice according to Bloomberg. |
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| 1:32.0 | All right, Tether executives are reportedly facing a Department of Justice criminal probe for bank fraud. |
| 1:39.0 | According to Bloomberg, a story published today claims that the Department of Justice is probing Tether on whether it's executives committed bank fraud. |
| 1:47.0 | As you know, keep in doing a Twitter investigation here on the podcast for the past couple of weeks, maybe even months now. |
| 1:53.0 | And slowly, but surely, we're figuring out how this stablecoin, a coin, a cryptocurrency that's backed reportedly dollar for dollar with the US dollar. |
| 2:03.0 | And we found out that they no longer do that. They've got a collection of assets. |
| 2:07.0 | Well, this is a separate issue. It seems, then they're holdings. |
| 2:10.0 | And this is on top of their top two executives being MIA and the two other executives who are very vocal on Twitter. |
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