TREE NEWS reports: US Senator Richard Blumenthal, a senior Democrat on the Senate investigation panel, is continuing to examine stablecoin issuer Tether’s financial relationships and has written to Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Brandon Lutnick requesting information on the two firms’ ties. Cantor Fitzgerald holds and manages Tether’s reserve assets in the United States, and the companies have several other business interests. Brandon Lutnick, son of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, took over Cantor’s leadership after his father joined President Donald Trump’s administration.
Senator Blumenthal Probes Cantor Fitzgerald’s Ties to Tether
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Tether's long-running opacity around reserve custody has mostly been a state-level and civil matter; a Senate investigation reaching into a custodian's CEO signals the scrutiny is now federal and political. The Lutnick family's dual roles — running the custodian while a father serves in the administration — give the probe a conflict-of-interest dimension that pure reserve questions lacked. Whether this stays a document request or escalates into hearings is the open question.
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