⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ Profile picture
Mar 18, 2023 8 tweets 9 min read Read on X
🍴 About to dig in to the congressional report on covid relief / #PPP loan scams. @CrossRiverBank's name comes up 16 times when I ctrl-f.

Reminder this is the most important crypto bank in America. It's @Coinbase and @Circle's bank, among others.
permanent.fdlp.gov/gpo189524/2022…
@crossriverbank @coinbase @circle 🧵2/Ω
@CrossRiverBank et al. "specialized in dubious loans" and "did not get better over time" as "lenders often doubled or tripled their potential misreporting rates in round 3 compared to rounds 1 and 2."

Sounds like (extremely) willful negligence. @oooitscrime
🧵3/Ω
@CrossRiverBank's executives anticipated that people would try to commit #PPP / covid relief fraud early in 2020 (w/in months of American pandemic's start), and yet as noted above 👆 they issued increasing percentages of fraudulent loans (and pocketed increasing fees).
🧵4/Ω
@KabbageInc, whom @CrossRiverBank chose as a partner for their #PPP lending program, was an obvious fraud.

Also funny how $CUBI, one of the other "crypto-friendly" banks also chose to partner with #Kabbage for #PPP loan issuance.

"The company you keep..."
🧵5/Ω
Unsure if it was @KabbageInc, @CrossRiverBank, or $CUBI who issued large #PPP loans to

1. An orange grove in Minnesota
2. A cattle ranch on a sand bar on the Jersey shore

But it was definitely one of them. Sounds like world class compliance teams at work.
🧵6/Ω
@KabbageInc approved a big #PPP loan to a company called "Deely Nuts" for "tree nut farming" in coastal New Jersey.

You really can't make this stuff up. #DeelyNuts
🧵7/Ω
The congressional report identifies the fact that poor fraud controls made @Bluevine a popular avenue for #PPP loan fraud.

@CrossRiverBank has partnered with #Bluevine since 2010. 🤔
🧵8/Ω
#CelticBank (also being investigated!) did similar types of loans w/some of the same sketchy partners as @CrossRiverBank and yet the rate of fraud was around *half* that at CRB.

CRB emails "did not reflect the same rigorous and consistent oversight efforts" as Celtic. 🤔

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with ⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @Cryptadamist

Nov 18
🧵1/Ω
#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: I Made Epstein's Texts Great Again (And You Should Read Them)

I converted the text msg logs in the recently released 20,000 pages of Epstein effluence to a more friendly format and read them. You should too.

(link in bio, RTs 🙏) Image
🧵2/Ω
Here's a sneak peak of the kind of thing you will see. Live the vicarious thrill of a guy like Steve Bannon saying things like:

> "but that will all be reversed when regime falls"

to the 21 century's most notorious sex pest. Image
🧵3/Ω
Direct link to the post on The Blogging Site That Shall Not Be Named
cryptadamus.substack.com/p/i-made-epste…
Read 21 tweets
Nov 14
🧵1/Ω
A thread where i will using the power of ctrl-F to dig up epstein emails about all things crypto.

Let's start with @JeremyRubin, the founder of a bitcoin research org called Judica and a player in the ill fated MIT digital currency initiative. Image
Image
🧵8/Ω
There's what looks like a 2015 pitch sheet (?) from #BlockchainCapital, co-founded by epstein's pal #BrockPierce who would go on to help launch Tether (a nation state sized money laundering machine) and EOS (1 of the biggest scams in history, ~$4bn)
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/docum…Image
🧵9/Ω
Disgraced former head of the MIT Media Lab Joi Ito seen here telling Epstein that crypto is "like the internet" but the core team is in need of a bailout, which he used "gift funds" to "win this round".

epstein says "gavin is clever"

were those Epstein's "gift funds"? Image
Read 60 tweets
Jul 23
Ω🪬Ω
#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Crypto Touch

Jeffrey Epstein touched cryptocurrency in a lot of inappropriate places. #epsteinfiles #epstein #JeffreyEpstein

🧵1/Ω Image
🧵2/Ω
Here's the actual link. Also want to give a huge shout out to @NFTEthics whose research I heavily relied on for the article.
cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epste…
@NFTethics 🧵3/Ω
The man, the myth, the legend: Howard "Nutlick" Lutnick. Image
Read 9 tweets
Jul 1
🧵1/Ω
i found a pretty fascinating trove of documents that detail one man's long and arduous 𝘬𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘧 to force #Tether to seize ~$3 million USDT that he lost to an address poisoning scam a few years back. Image
🧵2/Ω
Asif Ayub Patel was innocently attempting to purchase $3 million worth of gold bars from Northern Lights, a precious metals dealer based in Hong Kong that prefers to be paid in Tether, as any freedom loving Dubai resident is wont to do.
TTNRRr9jJ4sKAYExY9UryfxApFXJH2t2SJ Image
Image
🧵3/Ω
Unfortunately he was careless & got pwned by an address poisoning attack: scammer sends you some crypto from an address that starts/ends w/the same characters as the address you are trying to transact with and hopes you copy/paste from recent txns w/out checking. Image
Read 22 tweets
Jun 25
🧵1/Ω
Since #Israel attacked #Iran Tether has frozen 112 addresses on Tron and Ethereum.

- Collectively those wallets received ~$700 million USDT before being frozen
- The top 40 of those wallets are *all* on Justin Sun's Tron blockchain

Iranian exchanges mostly use Tron USDT. Image
🧵2/Ω
Dune dashboard with all the historical Tether blacklist data for those two blockchains can be found here:
dune.com/queries/5342352
🧵3/Ω
#Nobitex, the largest crypto exchange in Iran (which is basically a Binance feeder fund, but I digress), openly advises its users on how to avoid sanctions via Tether USDT even though that is a blatant violation of all kinds of laws.
Read 42 tweets
Jan 29
🧿1/Ω
apparently Trump's #WorldLibertyFi wallet had a sudden huge drop off in its token holdings exactly as $TRUMP and #MELANIA were launched...

...and then right after $TRUMP weekend it suddenly had $400mm in assets despite selling <$200mm in $WLFI to JustinSun etc. Image
🧿2/Ω
full $WLFI dashboard from @seoulcalibureth:
dune.com/seoul/wlfi
🧿3/Ω
it really looks like a few days before the $TRUMP launch someone borrowed all $ETH from #WorldLibertyFi treasury, sent it to a bunch of different Coinbase accounts (sus?), and then it came back from #CowSwap trades post-TrumpCoin w/e.

also at least one peel chain. Image
Image
Image
Image
Read 12 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(