Unpacking the DOJ's Crypto Enforcement Memo
By Nikhilesh De
"Steve Segal, a shareholder at Buchalter, said that some of the DOJ's past cases would charge trading venues for failing to police their own customers. The memo now seems to suggest that if a crypto exchange's executives were running a clean platform, and customers were laundering funds derived from criminal activities, the executives would not be charged. This is in contrast with, for example, FTX, where the executives were charged and convicted of (or pled guilty to) fraud charges."
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