⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯#HowardLutnick on #SocialSecurity checks: "If you complain because your check doesn't arrive one month you're obviously just a fraudster. after all, i'm a crypto billionaire and my family members wouldn't complain about missing a $600 check."
MissConstrueOk y’all, we’ve talked about stock market manipulation and we’ve talked about crypto fraud and the First Crime Family, but have we talked about Howard Lutnick and how money managed by the chair of Trump's transition team keeps showing up in the hands of drug cartels, terrorists, and fraudsters?
The Cryptocalypse Chronicles has a multi post series, of which part two is a "follow the money" deep dive into how Howard Lutnick manages roughly $100 billion for #Tether, and does business with gangs and sanctioned individuals and nations like Hamas, North Korea and Iran, and funds #pigButchering scams and illegal weapons and drug trades.
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #cantorfitzgerald #HowardLutnick #USDT #Terrorism #fraud #scams #Theft #cartels #DonaldTrump #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
1/ the fact that #Tether never took any action before today to block the world's foremost russian #ransomware laundering crypto exchange (#Garantex) from using their #USDT token tells you everything you need to know about Tether (and therefore about Trump's Commerce Secretary #HowardLutnick, who manages Tether's money).
IMHO the fact that this is happening now suggests that the Trump administration has already made some kind of deal with #Putin.
https://protos.com/garantex-says-usdt-in-russian-wallets-under-threat-as-tether-freezes-27m/
#corruption #cantorfitzgerald #uspol #eupol #crime #infosec #cybersecurity #malware #Russia #Putin #Ukraine
#Tether is spreading the crypto disease into African fintechs like #MANSA...
#fintech #africa #moneylaundering #corruption #Crypto #howardlutnick #cantorfitzgerald
MANSA Secures $10 Million in Funding Led by Tether to Solve Liquidity Challenges in Cross-Border Payments
MANSA Secures $10 Million in Funding Led by Tether to Solve Liquidity Challenges in Cross-Border Payments. This marks a significant milestone for the company in its mission to alleviate liquidity challenges for payment companies worldwide,
Commerce Secretary #HowardLutnick has “divested” his control over his firm #CantorFitzgerald by naming his two 20 something year old nepo baby sons to run one of america’s larger investment banks (and possibly the world’s largest provider of banking services for criminals and rogue nuclear states, because Cantor manages assets for #Tether).
welcome to the #meritocracy.
* bloomberge: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/howard-lutnick-taps-two-sons-three-business-heads-to-run-cantor
* more lutnick: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113086118854620924
Trump cabinet member #HowardLutnick's¹ $135 billion crypto-bank-for-criminals #Tether has two options:
1. submit to an audit like any normal financial firm
2. lose the entire EU customer base, representing a pct of global GDP comparable to the US or China
the fact that they chose #2 tells you everything you need to know about tether.
notice also that #Kraken and #CryptoCom are delisting #Paypal's #stablecoin #PYUSD... wonder what that's about.
¹ It was widely reported that Lutnick's firm #CantorFitzgerald, which manages Tether's assets, had taken a 5% stake in the co. but during his confirmation hearing he said there was only a "convertible bond", which is what the kids call "sus".
#crypto #eupol #uspol #uspolitics #trump #cryptocurrency #USDT #kraken #MICA
profit per employee comparison of:
- #Tether
- #Nvidia
- #GoldmanSachs
- #Meta
- #Apple
shows very clearly how profitable it can be to run a noncompliant bank / money laundry for terrorists, drug lords, and rogue nuclear states that derives 100% of its income from the government teat (especially when you put the owners of that noncompliant bank / money laundry in the White House and let them write their own financial regulations).
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USDT #sanctions #sanctionsevasion #cartels #moneylaundering #iran #DPRK #northKorea #economics #finance #howardLutnick #cantorfitzgerald
#HowardLutnick (part owner of #Tether, chairman of the #Trump transition team, billionaire owner of #CantorFitzgerald, and future Commerce Secretary of the US) made $216 million from Cantor last year as well as ~$128 million from other sources (mostly Newmark Group and BGC Group).. He's also an executive or board member of 818 different organizations (mostly small LLCs).
* Here's his financial disclosure form: https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25503861-howard-lutnick-final-asset-disclosure-278
* I wrote a long thing about Lutnick and Tether: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113086118854620924
$200 million is a lot of blood money...
#crypto #cryptocurrency #corruption #bloodmoney #crime #cabinet #inauguration #trump #uspol #uspolitics #donaldtrump #NewmarkGroup #HoraceMann #BGCGroup
new article from #ZekeFaux in Bloomberg about the chairman of the #Trump transition team #HowardLutnick taking an ownership stake in "#Tether, the stablecoin used by drug traffickers, terrorists and scammers to move money around the world" and more specifically about $300 million in terrorist connected transactions:
> It turns out that particular crypto wallet was controlled by Sa’id al-Jamal, a financier of the #Houthi fighters attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea, according to the US Treasury Department... Still, he was able to use those crypto wallets to send and receive more than $300 million of Tether.
no paywall: https://archive.ph/ivmIC
more on tether: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
#Terrorism #TerroristFinancing #AML #moneylaundering #crypto #USDT #Cryptocurrency #Election2024 #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Republicans #sanctions #russia #putin #ukraine #VladimirPutin #SanctionsEvasion #MoneyLaundering #CantorFitzgerald #USDT
A company that the #Trump transition team chairman and future American Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is part owner of (#Tether) just invested most of a billion dollars in another company Howard Lutnick’s firm Cantor Fitzgerald is the largest holder of (Rumble / RUM, the right wing alternative to YouTube favored by folks like #SteveBannon).
It's almost as though Lutnick has found a slush fund of a hundred billion dollars of Chinese money to pump into whatever publicly traded companies he'd like to pump and dump on the #MAGA base...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rumble-secures-775-million-investment-153024706.html
#USDT #crypto #cryptocurrency #DonaldTrump #CantorFitzgerald #HowardLutnick #Lutnick #cabinet #USPol #uspolitics #politics #Rumble #RUM #video
