{"id":73910,"date":"2026-02-25T14:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73910"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:50:41","slug":"senator-blumenthal-probes-binance-after-1-billion-flowed-to-iranian-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73910","title":{"rendered":"Senator Blumenthal Probes Binance After $1 Billion Flowed To Iranian Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. <strong>Richard Blumenthal<\/strong> (D-NY) has launched an investigation into <strong>Binance<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BNB\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BNB-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/bnb\/usd\">BNB<\/a>) after $1.7 billion flowed to Iranian terrorists including the Revolutionary Guard Corps, demanding records on why compliance staff who discovered the transfers were fired.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $1.7 Billion Flow<\/h3>\n<p>Blumenthal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blumenthal.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press\/release\/blumenthal-opens-inquiry-after-new-reporting-reveals-binance-allowed-17-billion-in-money-laundering-to-iran-proxies-and-russias-shadow-fleet\">wrote<\/a> to Binance CEO <strong>Richard Teng<\/strong> citing Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Fortune reports. <\/p>\n<p>Binance compliance staff found two partners\u2014Hexa Whale and Blessed Trust\u2014acted as intermediaries for laundering money to Iranian government entities.<\/p>\n<p>Internal investigators found cryptocurrency transfers to wallets associated with Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and payments to crew members of Russia\u2019s sanctions-evading shadow fleet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities warned Binance that the Hexa Whale was financing Yemen&#8217;s Houthi militants.<\/p>\n<p>The investigators who raised concerns were subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50621187\/binance-reportedly-fired-multiple-compliance-investigators-in-potential-iran-linked-sanctions-violation\">suspended<\/a> or fired. Blumenthal called this \u201cthe appearance of retaliation by Binance executives.\u201d The network remained active after the firings.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Trump Connection<\/h3>\n<p>Blumenthal argued &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50849810\/senator-blumenthal-probes-binance-after-1-billion-flowed-to-iranian-terrorists?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Senator\" blumenthal probes binance after billion flowed to iranian terrorists>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-NY) has launched an investigation into Binance (CRYPTO: BNB) after $1.7 billion flowed to Iranian terrorists including the Revolutionary Guard Corps, demanding records on why compliance staff who discovered the transfers were fired. The $1.7 Billion Flow Blumenthal wrote to Binance CEO Richard Teng citing Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and [&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-73910","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\/73910","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=73910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}