{"id":4126,"date":"2026-04-17T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:24:11","slug":"senator-presses-doj-and-treasury-over-status-of-binance-monitors-after-iran-linked-crypto-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"Senator presses DOJ and Treasury over status of Binance monitors after Iran-linked crypto flows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congress continues to probe Iran\u2019s use of Binance. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent out letters on Friday asking for details on the status of two monitors assigned to oversee the world\u2019s largest crypto exchange and its compliance operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am writing with concern over mounting allegations of dangerously lax anti-money laundering prevention by Binance,\u201d said Blumenthal, in the letters sent to the Justice Department and the U.S. Treasury\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for the DOJ and FinCEN also did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n

As part of a 2023 settlement with Binance over compliance shortcomings, the U.S. government installed two monitors, who separately report to the DOJ and FinCEN, to ensure the exchange put in place appropriate measures to overhaul its compliance program. The monitorships, which began in 2024, were part of a larger plea deal in which Binance paid a $4.3 billion fine related to its failure to impose proper money-laundering and sanctions oversight.<\/p>\n

Binance has since sought to project an image of corporate responsibility, but recent reports over Iranian crypto flows have prompted Blumenthal\u2014along with other Senate Democrats\u2014to probe the crypto exchange and the Trump administration over whether the exchange\u2019s internal operations match its public rhetoric.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amid the public back-and-forth, Binance\u2019s two monitors, whose roles include flagging any misconduct, have remained quiet.<\/p>\n

Frances McLeod, the Justice Department\u2019s chosen monitor and a founding partner at the consulting firm Forensic Risk Alliance, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did Sharon Cohen Levin, FinCEN\u2019s monitor and a partner at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.<\/p>\n

Monitorship on pause?<\/p>\n

Blumenthal\u2019s questioning comes after multiple outlets reported that Binance fired internal investigators who had warned top executives that over $1 billion had flowed through the exchange to Iran-linked wallets. Binance has said that the firings of the investigators were unrelated to their findings on Iranian flows, and that the crypto exchange maintains a rigorous compliance program. Spokespeople for the crypto exchange did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Blumenthal\u2019s inquiry into the status of its monitors.<\/p>\n

The Senator\u2019s letters also follow a 2025 report from Reuters that stated that the Justice Department had paused its corporate monitorships as part of an informal review. In March 2025, a judge granted the DOJ\u2019s request to end the monitorship of Glencore, the international mining company caught up in a foreign bribery scheme. Later that year, the DOJ also scrapped the requirement for the airplane manufacturer Boeing to have its own independent monitor.<\/p>\n

Critics of monitorships, or when governments ask independent third parties to oversee a company that\u2019s run afoul of the law, argue that they\u2019re costly burdens for corporations or just not effective.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2013, a U.S. court imposed an antitrust monitor onto Apple after ruling that the tech giant engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy. Other marquee companies to receive monitors include Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen, and Walmart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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