{"id":82228,"date":"2026-04-17T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=82228"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:46:31","slug":"democratic-senator-wants-answers-about-binances-1-7-billion-in-iran-linked-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=82228","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Senator Wants Answers About Binance&#8217;s $1.7 Billion In Iran-Linked Flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. <strong>Richard Blumenthal<\/strong> (D-Conn.) sent letters Friday to the Justice Department and Treasury demanding answers by April 24 on <strong>Binance\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BNB-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BNB\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/bnb\/usd\">BNB<\/a>) compliance monitors after over $1.7 billion flowed through the exchange to Iran-linked wallets.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Monitor Question<\/h3>\n<p>Blumenthal specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/04\/17\/senator-blumenthal-binance-doj-fincen-treasury-monitorships-status\/\">asked<\/a> about the status of monitors Binance had to install after the exchange pleaded guilty in November 2023 to failing to register as a money transmitting business and breaching sanctions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exchange agreed to pay over $4 billion in penalties and retain an independent compliance monitor for three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am writing with concern over mounting allegations of dangerously lax anti-money laundering prevention by Binance,\u201d Blumenthal said in the letters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frances McLeod<\/strong>, the Justice Department\u2019s chosen monitor and a founding partner at consulting firm Forensic Risk Alliance, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neither did &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51893659\/democratic-senator-wants-answers-about-binances-1-7-billion-in-iran-linked-flows?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Democratic\" senator wants answers about binance billion in iran-linked flows>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent letters Friday to the Justice Department and Treasury demanding answers by April 24 on Binance\u2019s (CRYPTO: BNB) compliance monitors after over $1.7 billion flowed through the exchange to Iran-linked wallets. The Monitor Question Blumenthal specifically asked about the status of monitors Binance had to install after the exchange pleaded guilty [&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-82228","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\/82228","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=82228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}