new CEO of the favourite #bank of both the #crypto industry as well as #GeorgeSantos was just arrested for child sex stuff and maybe even child slavery (“buying or selling of children” is allegedly among his charges).

Reminder that Evolve Bank & Trust was:

- george santos & andy ogles campaigns' bank
- #FTX debit card provider
- #synapse bankruptcy disaster banking partner
- hacked by #russia
- a venezuelan money laundry

and those are the confirmed offences. one assumes there are at least a few bodies that have not floated to the surface yet.

#uspol #evolvebank #evolvebankandtrust #AndyOgles #tnpol #tennessee #nypol #nyc #Venezuela #Grindr #uspolitics #CSAM #ChildAbuse #tnpol #a16z

oh look, another #fintech bankruptcy involving Evolve Bank & Trust.

some other fun places Evolve has popped up:

1. issuer of #FTX and #BlockFi debit cards (before those companies blew up and customers lost all their money)
2. #GeorgeSantos and #AndyOgles held their campaign money at Evolve
3. #Synapse bankruptcy which cost customers of a bunch of fintech "banks" like #Yotta most if not all of their money
4. Partnered with "anti-woke" fintech #GloriFi
5. Got hacked by Russia midway through Synapse bankruptcy proceedings
6. Anonymous crypto debit card issuer for #ZELF
7. Frequently found to be the bank used by #pigbutchering fraudsters
8. Sanctioned by federal reserve for #moneylaundering

The fact that Evolve has not been shut down is insane. Banking system cannot survive if these kinds of bad actors roam free like the wind.

* more on Evolve: https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/evolves-problematic-partners-bankruptcies
* even more: https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/evolve-hit-with-fed-enforcement-action

#EvolveBank #EvolveBankAndTrust #finreg #Banking #uspol #AML #BaaS #Russia #putin

more great reporting from Jason Mikula on the #a16z / #MarcAndreessen backed financial disaster known as Synapse, the middleman behind Yotta and others that lost track of (and maybe lost) most of their customers’ money.

Andreessen’s desire to eliminate the #CFPB for “terrorizing” #fintech companies like Synapse suggests a desire to keep backing companies that will strip mine the wallets of uneducated consumers.

Seen also: Evolve Bank & Trust (a bank popular with players like #FTX and #GeorgeSantos), #VoyagerDigital (a crypto company backed by #MarcCuban that incinerated user deposits in 2022), and #MetropolitanCommercialBank (#MCB), a NY institution beloved by the far right in Israel.

https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/regulators-should-conduct-material

#EvolveBank #EvolvebankAndTrust #Yotta #Synapse #JasonMikula #FintechBusinessWeekly

@JessTheUnstill interesting fact: the #Synapse partner bank where all these issues are stemming from, Evolve Bank & Trust, has a bunch of fun properties:

1. Issuer of the #FTX debit card
2. Used by George Santos and Andy Ogles to store campaign funds
3. Banking partner of #PrimeTrust, the Nevada crypto custody company that collapsed in 2023
4. Banking partner of #BlockFi, one of the crypto "banks" that went down with the good ship FTX.
5. Recently hacked by Russians
6. Recently hit with a major fed enforcement action

Also Synapse was backed in a big way by Trump loving #a16z and Marc Andreessen.

Some more details:

https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/evolve-hit-with-fed-enforcement-action

#marcandreessen #EvolveBank #EvolvebankAndTrust #crypto #cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #ethereum #BTC

🤑 George Santos and Andy Ogles, two well known pillars of virtue, held their campaign's money at the same bank that issued the #FTX debit cards, partnered with organized crime connected #crypto disaster #PrimeTrust, and can't find tens of millions of dollars of #Yotta's customers' money... #EvolveBank

details at the always excellent Fintech Business Weekly here: https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/why-did-political-campaigns-suddenly

oh, and also: #DanFriedberg, the lawyer for FTX, #Tether, and the #UltimateBet fraud, was one of Santos's biggest donors 🤔

#moneylaundering #uspol #uspolitics #election2024 #2024Election #AndyOgles #GeorgeSantos #corruption #Synapse #Yotta #EvolvebankAndTrust #cryptocurrency #SBF #Russia #China #fintech

#EvolveBankAndTrust has revealed they were a victim of a #databreach

Data was stolen on customers and partners, and includes name, Social Security Number, date of birth, account info and more. The data has been seen posted on the dark web.

Those affected are advised to be vigilant of phishing and to get credit monitoring

#cybersecurity

https://www.getevolved.com/about/news/cybersecurity-incident/