{"id":243288,"date":"2026-10-24T01:05:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=243288"},"modified":"2026-10-24T01:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:05:31","slug":"senator-probes-tethers-reported-6m-deal-with-firm-tied-to-ex-trump-crypto-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=243288","title":{"rendered":"Senator Probes Tether\u2019s Reported $6M Deal With Firm Tied to Ex-Trump Crypto Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) has launched an investigation into Tether\u2019s reported multimillion-dollar payments to a consulting firm co-owned by former White House cryptocurrency adviser Bo Hines, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest and violations of federal ethics and lobbying laws. Senator Blumenthal Seeks Answers From Tether In an Oct. 22 letter to Tether CEO [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) has launched an investigation into Tether\u2019s reported multimillion-dollar payments to a consulting firm co-owned by former White House cryptocurrency adviser Bo Hines, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest and violations of federal ethics and lobbying laws. Senator Blumenthal Seeks Answers From Tether In an Oct. 22 letter to Tether CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":243289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/243289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}