The Binance crypto exchange has just filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its article reporting that Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired.
WSJ report: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-iran-sanctions-financing-staff-b1648133
The article, and related investigations by the New York Times and Fortune, were cited in an inquiry over the alleged sanctions evasion by Senator Blumenthal, and a request by Sen. Van Hollen and others for an investigation by the Treasury and Justice Departments. Today the WSJ reported that the DOJ had opened such an investigation.
Blumenthal letter: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026.02.24-Binance-Iran-Sanctions-Evasion-to-Send.pdf
Van Hollen Letter: https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cvh_bessent_bondi_ltr_binance.pdf
WSJ report on the new investigation: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/justice-department-probes-irans-use-of-binance-to-evade-sanctions-9dc61ce4
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"...Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired."
🤦♂️ jfc
Because of course they fucking were.
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