{"id":10237,"date":"2025-01-29T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:16:37","slug":"elizabeth-warren-pressures-trumps-commerce-secretary-pick-howard-lutnick-over-tether-links-ahead-of-key-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=10237","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Pressures Trump&#8217;s Commerce Secretary Pick Howard Lutnick Over Tether Links Ahead Of Key Senate Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen.<strong>\u00a0Elizabeth Warren<\/strong>\u00a0(D-Mass.)\u00a0demanded answers from\u00a0Commerce Secretary nominee<strong> Howard Lutnick<\/strong> on Tuesday with regard to his association with the controversial stablecoin-issuing company <strong>Tether <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Warren wrote a letter to Lutnick, questioning potential financial conflicts arising out of the relationship between his firm, <strong>Cantor Fitzgerald<\/strong>, and Tether.<\/p>\n<p>Cantor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/08\/40423424\/donald-trump-names-howard-lutnick-to-lead-transition-team-heres-what-it-means-for-crypto\">Tether\u2019s Wall Street custodian<\/a>, holds billions of dollars in U.S. Treasuries to support the USDT stablecoin\u2014a cryptocurrency increasingly used to facilitate unlawful activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In particular, your deep involvement with and support for Tether, a known facilitator of criminal activity that has been described as \u2018outlaws&#8217; favorite cryptocurrency&#8217; raises concerns about your &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/43295888\/elizabeth-warren-pressures-trumps-commerce-secretary-pick-howard-lutnick-over-tether-links\" alt=\"Elizabeth\" warren pressures trump commerce secretary pick howard lutnick over tether links ahead of key senate hearing>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Elizabeth Warren\u00a0(D-Mass.)\u00a0demanded answers from\u00a0Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick on Tuesday with regard to his association with the controversial stablecoin-issuing company Tether (CRYPTO: USDT). What Happened: Warren wrote a letter to Lutnick, questioning potential financial conflicts arising out of the relationship between his firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Tether. Cantor, Tether\u2019s Wall Street custodian, holds billions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}