{"id":20029,"date":"2025-04-01T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20029"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:32:37","slug":"crypto-exchange-okx-appoints-linda-lacewell-as-new-chief-legal-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20029","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Exchange OKX Appoints Linda Lacewell as New Chief Legal Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OKX has appointed Linda Lacewell as its new chief legal officer (CLO) after the departure of Mauricio Beugelmans.<\/p>\n<p>Lacewell joined the crypto exchange as a board member last year having previously served as Superintendent and head of the New York Department of Financial Services, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okx.com\/learn\/okx-apppoints-new-clo-as-it-enters-new-markets\" target=\"_blank\">according to an announcement on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her leadership comes at a pivotal time as we expand into key markets such as Europe and U.A.E,&#8221; OKX said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes the day after CoinDesk reported that Lacewell&#8217;s predecessor Mauricio Beugelmans had left OKX, with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/03\/31\/okx-chief-legal-officer-mauricio-beugelmans-leaves-the-exchange\" target=\"_blank\">departure related to the exchange&#8217;s penalties of over $500 million<\/a> paid to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), according to a source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ stated that OKX had facilitated more than $5 billion in \u201csuspicious transactions and criminal proceeds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKX has appointed Linda Lacewell as its new chief legal officer (CLO) after the departure of Mauricio Beugelmans. Lacewell joined the crypto exchange as a board member last year having previously served as Superintendent and head of the New York Department of Financial Services, according to an announcement on Tuesday. &#8220;Her leadership comes at a [&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-20029","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\/20029","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=20029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}