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Remarkable 🤷🏽‍♂️ „While prosecutions for privacy-focused crypto developers are taking place, former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao walked free in October after receiving a Trump pardon, despite his role in the exchange’s relaxed anti-money laundering controls that drew a 2023 guilty plea and four-month sentence. Many critics, including the former DOJ pardon chief Elizabeth Oyer, decry the move as an unprecedented level of corruption, citing Binance’s holdings of $2 billion in a stablecoin issued by Trump-linked crypto venture World Liberty Financial. In contrast, Rodriguez and Hill petitioned Trump for a pardon shortly after their sentences were handed down, but no response from the administration has emerged.“