{"id":86586,"date":"2023-11-22T00:59:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T05:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=86586"},"modified":"2023-11-22T00:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T05:44:53","slug":"binance-warned-vip-customers-about-law-enforcement-investigations-treasury-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2023\/binance-warned-vip-customers-about-law-enforcement-investigations-treasury-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Binance warned VIP customers about law enforcement investigations, Treasury says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Binance\u2019s VIP users were granted a set of special privileges, including an early heads-up from the crypto exchange if they were under investigation by law enforcement, according to\u00a0the U.S. Treasury\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/11\/21\/changpeng-zhao-speaks-out-after-doj-plea-deal-names-new-binance-ceo.html\">Binance<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/11\/21\/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-to-plead-guilty-to-federal-charges-step-down.html\">Changpeng Zhao<\/a> pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the U.S. and stepped down from his post on Tuesday as part of a $4.3 billion settlement. The plea deal resolves a multi-year investigation into the world\u2019s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/11\/21\/cryptocurrencies-dip-as-investors-digest-key-updates-from-industry-heavyweights-binance-kraken.html\">crypto exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/11\/21\/binance-warned-vip-customers-about-investigations-treasury-says.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Binance\u2019s VIP users were granted a set of special privileges, including an early heads-up from the crypto exchange if they were under investigation by law enforcement, according to\u00a0the U.S. Treasury\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao pleaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86587,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86586\/revisions\/86587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}