{"id":19639,"date":"2025-03-28T20:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19639"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:02:40","slug":"donald-trump-pardons-bitmex-co-founders-arthur-hayes-benjamin-delo-samuel-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19639","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Pardons BitMex Co-Founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, Samuel Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> has pardoned the three co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, who previously pled guilty to federal charges related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/19\/12\/14977835\/major-cryptocurrency-exchange-faces-300m-lawsuit-for-investor-fraud\">money laundering and regulatory violations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/03\/28\/trump-pardon-bitmex-crypto-exchange-money-laundering.html\">reported<\/a> on Friday that <strong>Arthur Hayes<\/strong>, <strong>Benjamin Delo<\/strong> and <strong>Samuel Reed<\/strong> received presidential pardons on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The three executives had faced serious legal consequences after prosecutors accused them of operating BitMEX as a \u201cmoney laundering platform\u201d and creating a \u201csham\u201d withdrawal from the U.S. market. <\/p>\n<p>Reed had pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act in 2022 and agreed to pay a $10 million fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44534411\/bitcoin-down-to-85000-ethereum-xrp-slide-5-before-key-inflation-data\">Bitcoin Down To $85,000, Ethereum, XRP &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/legal\/25\/03\/44544963\/donald-trump-pardons-bitmex-co-founders-arthur-hayes-benjamin-delo-samuel-reed\" alt=\"Donald\" trump pardons bitmex co-founders arthur hayes benjamin delo samuel reed>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has pardoned the three co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, who previously pled guilty to federal charges related to money laundering and regulatory violations. What Happened: CNBC reported on Friday that Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo and Samuel Reed received presidential pardons on Thursday. The three executives had faced serious legal consequences after prosecutors [&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-19639","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\/19639","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=19639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}