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Now that #JosephDePaolo has suddenly resigned as CEO of $SBNY under a cloud of money laundering/fraud related smoke (he banked #Binance under a nonexistent Seychelles company which is illegal) here's a recording of an earnings call where he claims to not know who FTX is.
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In the aftermath of the #FTXplosion DePaolo, one of two CEOs of "crypto friendly" banks in the United States, would like you to believe that he has no idea what this "#FTX" thing is.
SBF was easily the most famous dude in finance at that moment and a CUSTOMER AT HIS BANK
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Maybe he really was that clueless. Would explain how so much #Binance money got laundered through his bank and how $SBNY ended up being #Tether's banker.
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In interviews with #AlanLane, criminal mastermind behind $SI, the other "crypto friendly" bank, strongly implies that $USDC / @Circle's cash reserves are held at $SBNY as well as other stable coins.
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The "analyst" quoted in @CoinDesk saying the sudden departure of DePaolo from $SBNY is no biggie is a joke. I've heard the earnings calls. Not one "analyst" ever asked SBNY about #Binance or money laundering.
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Funny because $SBNY made it pretty clear in their SEC filings that "the ability to engage in txns across multiple jurisdictions, and the anonymous nature of the transactions, can make digital assets vulnerable to fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and cybersecurity risks"
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(If you keep reading you will see $SBNY acknowledge the Fed never actually said they could do what they were doing with digital assets)
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$SBNY's "SigNET" system currently moves $1 TRILLION PER YEAR in an entirely unapproved way.
I and others strongly suspect that $SBNY is going to be outed as the biggest money laundering hub in the American banking system.
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It's worth pointing out that unlike $SI, $SBNY was a functioning bank of some size pre-crypto. What was their main business? Commercial real estate.
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Worth adding that when #JosephDePaolo has no idea who this #FTX company was despite it being literally the most famous company in all of finance at that moment in late November, this is how many bank accounts #SBF had at $SBNY.
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BTW on the last earnings call $SBNY claimed that #FTX had not actually integrated with them. Which is odd, because:
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I have to wonder if the reason $SBNY's executives are saying "#FTX never integrated with #SigNET (SBNY's shady probably illegal payment network)" is because it was technically only #AlamedaResearch who had a #SigNET account...
Remember who these SBNY bros are anon.
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➤ #Binance announcing increasingly dire issues w/its fiat on and off ramps.
➤ #CryptoCom's Euro bank accounts were frozen or seized by #BankOfLithuania on 1/21 for money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions violations (screenshot)
Let's dig...
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Recently users of #CryptoCom were surprised to receive an email saying that #SEPA transfers of $EUR were being “migrated to a new provider” and thus Euro-denominated deposits and withdrawals were temporarily suspended.
Yikes.
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🧵3/Ω #Cryptocom customers couldn't deposit/withdraw for ~100 hours yet #CDC did not send any kind of prior notice to their customers. Many redditors confirm problems began > 24 hours BEFORE #CDC sent out the first (and only) email about the disruption.
that 15,427 page #GK8 document filled with #CelsiusNetwork's creditors personal detail is quite an amazing document.
i have so many questions, but let's start with:
1. Why are there an enormous numbers of creditors in countries GK8/Celsius aren't supposed to do business with?
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does anyone find it kind of... 𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆... that at any point in time there was more or less the exact same amount of #Tether on #Ethereum as on #JustinSun's #TRON?
it's almost as if #Tether was minting 2 $USDT for each $1 in #USD backing, one on each chain...
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I mean I guess we shouldn't really worry about it given that almost 100% of the $USDT on the #Tron blockchain was created for use by #SBF on his exchange #FTX. The #FTXScam is basically an honest exchange run by honest folks, right? #FTXScam
(h/t @DataFinnovation)
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Internet sleuths have been able to locate roughly half of the cash that backs $USDT. Surely any day now someone will stumble on all those tens of billions of dollars worth of "treasuries" that were formerly called "commercial paper"... (h/trick @DataFinnovation)
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It should surprise no one that @Bullish, an offshore exchange backed by the #EOS scammers at Block.One, uses $SI for banking.
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Nor would it surprise anyone to know that as of Nov. 24th a little over 1/6th of $SI (16.73%) was owned by #B1 CEO #BrendanBlumer and @B1 itself. b1.com/press/b1-acqui…
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The #EOS situation is complicated but suffice it to say it is dodgy even by crypto standards. Bros cashed out $4bn selling a coin to retail in an ICO and then never delivered the product. Got fined only ~$24mm by #SEC... good take, right?