

"Britain’s drug gangs and Moscow’s hackers were just two nodes in a vast criminal super-network [that] included sanctioned oligarchs, Russian intelligence operatives and an Irish crime family."
(and of course that network also now includes the #Trump administration, because Howard Lutnick is/was Tether's money manager)
* #TheEconomist: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/07/04/how-tether-became-money-launderers-dream-currency
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/NiCRD
#moneylaundering #crime#corruption #crypto #cryptocurrency #iran #russia #uspol#howardLutnick #economist #economics #finance #uk #ukpol #garantex #threatintel #ransomware #cybersecurity #vladimirputin #oligarchs #putin #ukraine #kinahans #kinahan
Trump is hawking his cologne on his social media site because hey, why not
the trump and witkoff families' #stablecoin#USD1 has existed for like 4 weeks and it's already seeing more reported trading volume than the coinbase aligned Circle's stablecoin #USDC, which i'm sure is because of entirely legitimate financial activity and not because chinese crypto exchanges like #Binance and #OKX are wash trading and/or reporting fake volumes
#corruption #trump #stablecoins#geniusAct #uspol #uspolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency#WLFI #worldlibertyfinancial #stevewitkoff#CRCL#Circle
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