{"id":21150,"date":"2025-04-08T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21150"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:17:16","slug":"trump-administration-shuts-down-the-department-of-justices-crypto-crime-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21150","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Shuts Down The Department Of Justice&#8217;s Crypto Crime Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/in.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44209136\/trumps-crypto-czar-david-sacks-reveals-us-government-missed-out-on-gains-of-over-17-billion-by-selling-bitcoin-early\">U.S. Department of Justice<\/a> has terminated its specialized cryptocurrency investigation team, signaling a significant shift in federal oversight of digital assets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>In a detailed internal memorandum, Deputy Attorney General <strong>Todd Blanche<\/strong> announced the immediate dissolution of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), aligning with President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s directive to foster a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment.<\/p>\n<p>The move reflects the administration&#8217;s broader push to scale back enforcement actions against the digital asset industry.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche, a key figure in the DOJ and Trump&#8217;s former defense attorney, criticized the previous administration&#8217;s approach to cryptocurrencies. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Justice Department&#8217;s role isn&#8217;t to regulate digital assets, but the prior leadership pursued aggressive prosecution tactics,&#8221; he wrote in the memo, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/crypto\/2025\/04\/08\/doj-ncet-disbands-memo-todd-blanche-trump\/\">according<\/a> to Fortune.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44696126\/trump-administration-shuts-down-the-department-of-justices-crypto-crime-unit\" alt=\"Trump\" administration shuts down the department of justice crypto crime unit>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice has terminated its specialized cryptocurrency investigation team, signaling a significant shift in federal oversight of digital assets. What Happened: In a detailed internal memorandum, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the immediate dissolution of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), aligning with President Donald Trump&#8216;s directive to foster a more [&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-21150","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\/21150","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=21150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}