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- 0:00It's no secret that Russian hackers
- 0:01routinely target American institutions
- 0:04for both financial gain and to deal
- 0:06political damage against the United
- 0:08States. But one FBI agent apparently has
- 0:11had enough and gone rogue. But as we're
- 0:14going to see, this is just a drop in the
- 0:17bucket in terms of the Russian
- 0:18cryptocurrency schemes. And worst of all
- 0:22is that the trail of crypto fraud and
- 0:26scams reaches all the way to the White
- 0:28House. Take a look. So,
- 0:31this was actually one of those videos
- 0:33that I thought was going to go in one
- 0:34direction and it went way sideways. Why?
- 0:37Because this is the story that got me
- 0:39into interested. An FBI agent was
- 0:41charged for stealing $1 million in
- 0:43cryptocurrency from Russia. This is a
- 0:45supervisory FBI agent, a pretty senior
- 0:48agent, who is facing federal charges for
- 0:51collecting $900,000
- 0:53between two {quote} adversarial
- 0:55cryptocurrency accounts tied to criminal
- 0:56targets overseas. This is to say, these
- 0:59are criminal hacking groups tied to
- 1:02Russia that
- 1:04got these funds
- 1:06somehow. It's not clear whether it was
- 1:08from committing crimes in the United
- 1:10States, committing crimes elsewhere, or
- 1:12maybe it was just working capital that
- 1:14the Russians gave to them to sort of
- 1:16fund their operation. But
- 1:19reportedly FBI fired Agent Patrick Yarak
- 1:23last week as he was arrested for
- 1:25transportation of stolen goods and
- 1:26receipt of stolen goods. In an
- 1:28affidavit, he admitted to the crimes uh
- 1:30to a Justice Department employee because
- 1:32he was {quote} frustrated when he could
- 1:34not do more to disrupt the hacking
- 1:36group's use of cryptocurrency.
- 1:39Uh this is unusual. According to
- 1:42officials familiar with the matter
- 1:44matter, the adversarial targets were
- 1:45Russian.
- 1:47Now, Yarak voluntarily met with
- 1:49personnel at FBI headquarters where he
- 1:50wanted to disclose something because he
- 1:52had screwed up. According to the
- 1:53detailed description between agents and
- 1:55Yarak, he had been fully cooperative
- 1:56with the federal officials, allowed
- 1:58agents to use his biometric information
- 1:59to unlock his devices.
- 2:01He detailed to the agents how he
- 2:03researched cryptocurrency further,
- 2:05memorized key passphrases in order to
- 2:07successfully transfer the funds. He
- 2:09admitted that he had conducted these
- 2:10transfers starting in late 2024 about 10
- 2:13to 12 times, didn't know the exact
- 2:15amount he transferred because the funds
- 2:16were mixed in with his personal assets.
- 2:18Yark added that his actions were eating
- 2:19him up inside and he wanted to get it
- 2:20off his chest. Uh obviously
- 2:23he the FBI got this information,
- 2:25authorized to search warrant.
- 2:28It also showed that the agent had been
- 2:30chatting with ChatGPT talking about what
- 2:32he would do with a large sum of money
- 2:34and if you could move abroad. Quote, if
- 2:36you had a bucket of money around 1
- 2:37million and wanted to leave the USA and
- 2:39become a resident or citizen of an EU
- 2:41country, what would you do? He asked the
- 2:42chatbot. Investigations uncovered that
- 2:45he had actually had a trip planned to
- 2:47Portugal with his family, which he
- 2:48claimed was to meet friends, but he
- 2:50realized he might not be able to go
- 2:51anymore and he hoped his family could
- 2:52still go on the trip.
- 2:54Now, this is weird for a bunch of
- 2:55reasons. One is that he came clean to
- 2:58the FBI.
- 2:59Uh I actually
- 3:01I'm going to speculate here.
- 3:03Right? And say that it's really weird.
- 3:05An FBI agent knows the secrets, right?
- 3:08And knows that yeah, you stole for a
- 3:11bunch of stuff from Russia uh while you
- 3:13were an FBI agent. And again, receipt of
- 3:15stolen goods knowing that they're stolen
- 3:17goods is a crime, so likely this
- 3:20cryptocurrency was the proceeds. Uh he
- 3:22knows that it's around a million
- 3:24dollars. Uh
- 3:26but what I thought was most interesting,
- 3:27again, a supervisory special agent,
- 3:29particularly in the Washington DC field
- 3:31office, this is somebody who's going to
- 3:32be making
- 3:33uh 150, probably a little north of that
- 3:36with seniority. This is somebody who's
- 3:38going to be able to retire at 55. This
- 3:40someone is probably close to retirement.
- 3:41There's a bunch of weirdness here. It's
- 3:43also pretty weird that his family
- 3:45was going on this trip to Portugal,
- 3:47which is notable because it's one of the
- 3:48countries with a golden visa. A visa
- 3:50that if you can prove substantial income
- 3:53or assets, they will actually let you
- 3:55retire there. And I think that's pretty
- 3:57interesting because again, a supervisory
- 3:59special agent is likely somebody who's
- 4:01pretty close to having that sweet
- 4:03federal pension that would let you live
- 4:05in Portugal anyway. It's all pretty
- 4:07weird. And the fact that he's like, "I
- 4:08hope my family can still go on the trip.
- 4:10I have gone in and confessed to this."
- 4:12is also kind of weird. It makes me think
- 4:14that maybe there's some funds that the
- 4:17FBI hasn't found yet. And his goal is to
- 4:19get the FBI to say, "Listen,
- 4:21we got a confession. We don't need to
- 4:23investigate this further. Let's just
- 4:25pack it up and go home." That's kind of
- 4:28my theory here.
- 4:29Also, $900,000 is a very convenient
- 4:31amount because
- 4:33um
- 4:34often US attorneys will like thefts of
- 4:37over a million dollars are treated
- 4:39significantly worse than thefts under a
- 4:40million dollars. It's a pretty important
- 4:42benchmark.
- 4:43All of this is pretty
- 4:45annoying.
- 4:46But that's not the real story here.
- 4:49Because what this is is a door, a window
- 4:51to look in and say, one, why was he so
- 4:54frustrated that
- 4:56the US government wasn't doing anything
- 4:58to stop these Russian crypto schemes.
- 5:00And that's where
- 5:02things started to get weird because I
- 5:05had the same question. What exactly is
- 5:07going on with the Russians in crypto?
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- 5:59So,
- 6:00let's talk a little bit more about
- 6:02Russian cryptocurrencies. So, to set the
- 6:04stage, Russia has a huge problem because
- 6:08Russia
- 6:09is a as a country needs to import and
- 6:13export a lot of goods. The reason the
- 6:15Russian economy hasn't totally collapsed
- 6:18is because
- 6:21the you know, Russia
- 6:23So, a typical country relies on payment
- 6:26systems to conduct payments. What do I
- 6:29mean? Let's say I'm a Chinese steel
- 6:30plant and I sell steel to an American
- 6:34airplane manufacturer, to Boeing.
- 6:36And Boeing says, "Listen,
- 6:39Chinese steel plant,
- 6:40we want to buy 1 ton of of aviation
- 6:43grade steel."
- 6:44Chinese steel plant goes, "Great. We'll
- 6:46get it to you. We sell the steel for a
- 6:49million yuan a ton."
- 6:52And Boeing says, "Well, we're a US
- 6:55company. We sell in USD."
- 6:57So, what has to happen? Well, basically,
- 7:00these two sides have to do a currency
- 7:02swap. You have to
- 7:04Boeing will take its USD, it'll sell
- 7:06them for yuan, and then it will use that
- 7:08yuan to pay the Chinese steel
- 7:10manufacturer.
- 7:12Simple process.
- 7:14Sort of.
- 7:16Because remember, there has to be a
- 7:18This depends on a couple of things. It
- 7:20depends on both those countries being
- 7:21able to go to banks. Those banks depend
- 7:24on an international
- 7:25uh messaging system that says, "Hey,
- 7:27we're going to do this swap of
- 7:28currencies, and then each side's going
- 7:30to get paid the agreed-upon amount less
- 7:33our bank fees less the you know,
- 7:35sort of probably less a little bit of of
- 7:38of forex exchange. And it can also be
- 7:40pretty tough cuz remember,
- 7:42Forex is a dynamic tradable market,
- 7:45right? I mean, like
- 7:48uh
- 7:49you know, you look at
- 7:50the Yuan USD the exchange, and I mean,
- 7:53you can see here that even the
- 7:57Yuan USD chart, right? You can see over
- 7:59the course of even a week,
- 8:02right? This varies There's dramatic
- 8:04swings in the price. Again, these look
- 8:06like These are tiny swings for like a
- 8:08tourist, but if you're talking about a
- 8:10million dollars of of steel, you're
- 8:12talking about
- 8:13a hundred million dollars of food, these
- 8:15are huge differences, right? So, these
- 8:17banks have to really work hard to make
- 8:19sure these transactions happen smoothly,
- 8:22succinctly, and that neither side
- 8:25gets screwed. So, there's a couple of
- 8:27things you can do to to to mitigate
- 8:29this. One is that often times these
- 8:31contracts are denoted in USD, where
- 8:33especially, you know, I'm using Boeing
- 8:35as an example, but let's say your you
- 8:38are a Chinese steel mill Let's say you
- 8:40are even better example. Let's say
- 8:42you're a Brazilian cattle farmer, and
- 8:43you're selling your cattle
- 8:45or your meat to
- 8:48uh to
- 8:50South Africa.
- 8:51Well, they go, "Okay, the South African
- 8:53rand trading for the Brazilian real,
- 8:56right?"
- 8:57Uh
- 8:58and that is a
- 9:01like really really difficult market. I
- 9:04mean,
- 9:04like
- 9:08you can see that they don't even bother
- 9:10charting it, all right? That's how
- 9:12That's how kooky-dooky this uh
- 9:16article is, right? Or this this exchange
- 9:18rate is. And so, what often happens
- 9:21is that these
- 9:23Yeah, here we go. Here's Here Here is
- 9:24the one-year Here's the one-week chart
- 9:27for Brazilian rand
- 9:28to You can see this currency exchange
- 9:31rate is all over the place.
- 9:32What generally these countries do is
- 9:34they pick a really stable currency,
- 9:36almost always the US dollar, and they
- 9:38say, "Listen, let's just agree we're
- 9:40both going to exchange our currencies
- 9:42for US dollars. We're going to do the
- 9:43deal in USD, and then we'll swap back at
- 9:45the end of it if we want." Some of these
- 9:47countries Some of these companies say,
- 9:48"Listen, we buy a bunch of stuff with
- 9:50dollars. Dollars are the international
- 9:51currency. We will just do the deal for
- 9:53dollars, and we'll just never switch it
- 9:55back to South African rand till the end
- 9:57of the year, or until we're done, until
- 9:59the the taxman requires it."
- 10:01So,
- 10:03all of this though, this whole thing
- 10:04that I'm describing depends on access to
- 10:06two things: the US banking system
- 10:10and the US dollar, right? And if you are
- 10:12a bank that processes US dollars, you
- 10:15have to be a part of the US banking
- 10:16system. And when Russia invaded Ukraine,
- 10:20uh the US said, "We are cutting you off
- 10:23of the US banking system. If your bank
- 10:25accepts dollars or deals in dollars in
- 10:27any way, shape, or form, you can't deal
- 10:30with Russia."
- 10:31Now, obviously, that's a huge problem
- 10:32for Russia because almost every country
- 10:35and almost every company on planet Earth
- 10:37of any size says, "Listen,
- 10:40we really want to deal
- 10:43in dollars. And if you know, what I
- 10:45mean, what would you do
- 10:47with a million Russian rubles? Like,
- 10:49truly ask yourself. If I said, "Listen,
- 10:52I you know, I can I
- 10:53you sell Let's say you got a paycheck
- 10:55one day, and they just handed you a
- 10:57stack of rubles.
- 10:58What would you do?
- 11:00Like, would you go and you'd pay what,
- 11:016% to a currency exchanger in your local
- 11:04airport? And how many rubles would they
- 11:06let you cash out before they said,
- 11:08"Listen, dude, we don't we we don't want
- 11:10your rubles, either." Right?
- 11:12I mean, $100,000 in rubles, like that's
- 11:14a that's insane.
- 11:16So, that is right there a problem that
- 11:19the Russians ran into.
- 11:21And they found
- 11:23the Russians are very creative. They
- 11:25found a lot of solutions.
- 11:27Okay?
- 11:28One is to simply say, "Yeah, we're just
- 11:29going to swap our currencies
- 11:31as is." There's a problem with that
- 11:34though, and that is that a lot of times
- 11:36these other countries, they don't they
- 11:38don't if you are a Chinese
- 11:41like a lot of these banks say, "Listen,
- 11:42we don't want a bunch of rubles. Like
- 11:44what what are a bunch of Chinese going
- 11:45to do with rubles?"
- 11:47And again, the ruble for a while was
- 11:49also sanctioned.
- 11:51And so
- 11:52you had this thing where the Russians
- 11:53were like and businesses say, "Listen,
- 11:55we don't want rubles.
- 11:57Don't give us your stupid rubles." Banks
- 11:59are like, "We don't want them because
- 12:00that's an unbelievably unstable currency
- 12:03and you're sanctioned."
- 12:04So, the Russians found ways around it,
- 12:07right? And they use something called
- 12:09netting where they'll look they'll sort
- 12:11of bundle a whole bunch of transactions
- 12:14from like 50 different businesses. And
- 12:16they'll say, "Okay, so
- 12:18uh
- 12:19this month every Russian business
- 12:21exported to India uh canned goods and
- 12:24aluminum and potatoes and India sent us
- 12:27uh fuel oil and soybeans and uh licenses
- 12:32for software." And they say, "Okay, well
- 12:34well, if you just kind of add the value
- 12:37of each of those things up, it turns out
- 12:39that the only difference is like is like
- 12:41$100 of Indian rupees that we have to
- 12:44actually switch. And the rest of the
- 12:46payments actually never cross borders,
- 12:47they just get balanced between the
- 12:48companies."
- 12:50So,
- 12:51there's all these kooky dookie schemes,
- 12:53but one of the most important they have
- 12:55is the A7A5 stablecoin.
- 12:57What is that? Well, Russia, which by the
- 13:00way uh before the invasion of Ukraine,
- 13:02they were getting ready to ban
- 13:04cryptocurrency. Cuz they're like,
- 13:06"Cryptocurrency
- 13:07is a currency for criminals." And then
- 13:09the state of Russia became the criminals
- 13:11and they said, "We love cryptocurrency."
- 13:13So, they created their own version of
- 13:15FTX called Garantex and Grinex. These
- 13:18are crypto exchanges and they the
- 13:21Russian government de facto allowed the
- 13:23creation of the A7A5 stablecoin. This is
- 13:27a This is the digital ruble. Right? And
- 13:31it represented what they call a
- 13:32tokenized settlement infrastructure.
- 13:34Just fancy words for
- 13:36it's a way for people to pay
- 13:39peop- other countries. Is a ruble-backed
- 13:42stablecoin issued through an entity
- 13:43incorporated in Kyrgyzstan, which is
- 13:45less sanctioned than Russia, backed by
- 13:47ruble deposits held by a Russian
- 13:49state-owned bank. Right? So, the Russian
- 13:51state-owned bank keeps the rubles right
- 13:53there in a bank account in a bank vault,
- 13:56and instead they issue one A7A5 coin for
- 14:00each ruble.
- 14:01This
- 14:02ruble token
- 14:05can be
- 14:06traded
- 14:07and traded, most importantly, for other
- 14:10stablecoins. This is the secret here.
- 14:13Because
- 14:15the Russian said, "Listen, we are going
- 14:17to
- 14:18sell our A7A5 stablecoin
- 14:21our token
- 14:23and we're going to buy Tether."
- 14:26A7A5 tokens were then swap then swap
- 14:28those tokens for USDT on connected
- 14:32platforms. It's called a bridging
- 14:35asset. Right? Russian companies
- 14:38again, that Russian potato company
- 14:40deposits the rubles into the bank and
- 14:42says, "Listen,
- 14:43we're not going We can't exchange our
- 14:45rubles for dollars, but we can exchange
- 14:48our rubles for A7A5 tokens. We can
- 14:50exchange those tokens for USDT or Tether
- 14:54stablecoins, and then we switch those
- 14:56Tether stablecoins for dollars that we
- 14:58can use to buy anything anywhere in the
- 15:00world free and clear."
- 15:03And that is what they did. In fact, in
- 15:062025
- 15:07A7A5 processed a hundred billion dollars
- 15:11in transactions.
- 15:13This is a huge number. All right? And
- 15:17for context, the entire Russian economy
- 15:21the entire Russian defense budget
- 15:26in USD is 160 billion. So, for those of
- 15:30you keeping track at home,
- 15:32like the entire
- 15:34value of the Russian war machine,
- 15:3760% of that was A78 what was how much
- 15:41was exchanged in A785?
- 15:43So, you're talking
- 15:45is that something like probably I would
- 15:47estimate about four three and a half to
- 15:494% of Russia's entire GDP
- 15:52of their entire economic output for a
- 15:53given year
- 15:54was processed through A785 stablecoins,
- 15:57which is crazy when you think about it.
- 15:59Because again,
- 16:01like most Russian economic activity is
- 16:03domestic. It's a Russian consumer buying
- 16:06a car from a Russian dealer. There's no
- 16:08the US can't be involved in that anyway.
- 16:11So, you're talking about a huge portion
- 16:14of Russian export values, right? So,
- 16:19like
- 16:20the total Russian exports in 2025
- 16:23uh in USD is reportedly Oh man. So, one
- 16:28in four
- 16:29dollars of
- 16:32of foreign transactions was done through
- 16:34this A785 to Tether stablecoin.
- 16:37And this is
- 16:40crazy.
- 16:43And
- 16:44you also have course a bunch of other
- 16:46shady actors, right? Something called
- 16:48over-the-counter brokers. Uh
- 16:51the over-the-counter brokers are simply
- 16:53people that say, "Listen, we have a
- 16:56um think about crypto and Tether
- 16:58especially as being like a trackable
- 17:01ledger." And these over-the-counter
- 17:03brokers say, "Listen, we all we do is
- 17:06we're the last step. We switch Tether
- 17:08for actual stacks of US dollars. That's
- 17:11it. You send us Tether, we switch them
- 17:13for dollars.
- 17:14They're sort of a an output. It lets you
- 17:17spit out
- 17:18this cryptocurrency and they don't keep
- 17:20ledgers.
- 17:21They simply just do it, right? It's
- 17:23often times in places like like Cambodia
- 17:26near the Chinese border, places that
- 17:28where financial enforcement is just like
- 17:30not happening.
- 17:32And that is sort of the final step here
- 17:34is that these again Russian actors will
- 17:36say, "Listen, I have some Tether. Let me
- 17:37transfer you some Tether. Give me some
- 17:39USDT or give me some good old greenbacks
- 17:42that I can use to buy GPUs or
- 17:46sanctioned technologies or
- 17:48just sort of circumvent US sanctions in
- 17:50general."
- 17:51And
- 17:54these
- 17:55are
- 17:57this is an unbelievable scale. I was
- 17:59shocked at the level of scale of this.
- 18:02Now,
- 18:03in the in 2026,
- 18:05uh two things happened that kind of
- 18:08turned the A7A5 scheme sideways. In late
- 18:112025,
- 18:13most of this trading was taking place on
- 18:14a a form called Grinex,
- 18:16which was subject to sanction. But then
- 18:19in April of 2026,
- 18:22um Grinex actually got hacked and about
- 18:25$15 million of customer assets were
- 18:26stolen. Grinex actually blamed a
- 18:29nation-state for the hack and the some
- 18:32observers suspected that people said,
- 18:34"Oh, we got hacked by the mean old
- 18:36West." And then actually it was just the
- 18:38founders of Grinex who dipped. But the
- 18:41only venue with meaningful A7A5
- 18:43liquidity failed as well as of course
- 18:45A7A5 actually getting sanctioned by
- 18:50the by the European Union, which really
- 18:53hurt their ability to sort of do these
- 18:55transactions. Um
- 18:59And so
- 19:01the
- 19:02fact is that yeah, A7A5 that has kind of
- 19:06gone away, but there's something else.
- 19:09It just hasn't hit the the the reporting
- 19:12yet. I promise you, there is a different
- 19:14scheme and using cryptocurrency to flip
- 19:17around
- 19:18to to beat US sanctions.
- 19:20How do I know this?
- 19:22Well, or why do I suspect this? And this
- 19:24is where things get even more insane.
- 19:27Uh
- 19:28the
- 19:30the White House benefits from this
- 19:33transaction.
- 19:34This is not me making it up.
- 19:36This is US Secretary of Commerce Howard
- 19:38Lutnick, notable for also him being an
- 19:41Epstein client and having been found to
- 19:43have lied about his relationship to
- 19:45Epstein,
- 19:46is also
- 19:48uh the
- 19:49owner of Cantor Fitzgerald.
- 19:52And for those of you keeping track at
- 19:53home, Cantor Fitzgerald is currently run
- 19:55by Howard Lutnick's son because
- 19:56obviously Howard Lutnick legally sh-
- 19:59isn't supposed to be running Cantor
- 20:00Fitzgerald while the US Secretary of
- 20:02Treasury.
- 20:03But
- 20:05obviously his son probably talks to his
- 20:07dad. That's a thing sons and fathers do
- 20:09sometimes.
- 20:11And Cantor Fitzgerald has a stake in
- 20:13Tether.
- 20:15A significant stake. In fact, Cantor
- 20:17Fitzgerald is the primary custodian
- 20:19backing Tether's USDT token.
- 20:23So,
- 20:24the fact is
- 20:25that Russia's willingness to continually
- 20:28exchange A7A5s for Tethers
- 20:30puts money directly into Howard
- 20:33Lutnick's pocket.
- 20:36Right?
- 20:38And
- 20:40the
- 20:42Yeah, there's a bunch of concerns you
- 20:43might have about cryptocurrency and
- 20:45laundering and the like.
- 20:46But the reality is
- 20:49that
- 20:50this
- 20:52should be I mean, this should be an
- 20:54unbelievable scandal.
- 20:56That somebody who is doing extensive
- 20:58business with Jeffrey Epstein alone,
- 21:00Howard Lutnick should rot in jail for
- 21:03simply being an accessory to
- 21:04trafficking. Period.
- 21:06But even if you can't get for that,
- 21:09what you should or lying
- 21:11to investigators who talked to him about
- 21:13his relationship to Epstein.
- 21:15But even you don't want to get him on
- 21:16those things, you should get him on the
- 21:17fact that as US Treasury Secretary,
- 21:21a company that he owned was facilitating
- 21:25Russian money laundering. It was
- 21:27allowing A7A5
- 21:29to be sold for an asset he controls,
- 21:32Tether.
- 21:34So,
- 21:36right there,
- 21:38we're talking about it which should be
- 21:39again a national scandal.
- 21:42And you add onto the back of that the
- 21:44fact that President Trump himself
- 21:47earned $1 billion with his
- 21:50cryptocurrency
- 21:51in just in 2025.
- 21:53And you start to realize you start to
- 21:55like put it together and you're like,
- 21:56you know,
- 21:59I think
- 22:00this is probably, I don't know, wrong.
- 22:05Like,
- 22:07he called I mean, President Trump he
- 22:09used to call Bitcoin a scam.
- 22:13Uh
- 22:14he made over $1.4 billion in income from
- 22:17crypto in 2025.
- 22:19That makes him one of the largest crypto
- 22:21entrepreneurs ever.
- 22:23Uh
- 22:25$500 million came from a crypto venture
- 22:29called World Liberty Financial. This is
- 22:32owned and launched by his kids, though
- 22:34he has a huge stake in it. Um he World
- 22:37Liberty Financial does nothing. It just
- 22:39created these tokens and then sold them
- 22:42uh
- 22:43to different crypto exchanges, sold them
- 22:46to different investors. And every time
- 22:49the company sells a token, Trump gets
- 22:5075% of the profits.
- 22:52Right? So, he actually has a transaction
- 22:54fee built in. So, if you want to bribe
- 22:57President Trump, you just buy and then
- 22:59sell World Liberty Financial token.
- 23:02He also made about $600 million through
- 23:04the Trump meme coin ecosystem.
- 23:07Uh given that the
- 23:09the but that cryptocurrency has lost 95%
- 23:12of its value since launch.
- 23:16And so
- 23:17this
- 23:19is just
- 23:20you understand why this FBI agent gets
- 23:23so frustrated. He watches the commander
- 23:26in chief
- 23:27run crypto scams on the American public
- 23:30with nobody saying anything.
- 23:32He watches the Secretary of Commerce of
- 23:34the United States, his company
- 23:36facilitates much Russian money
- 23:38laundering with A7A5 and Tether.
- 23:41And then he looks around and he goes,
- 23:42"Everybody in this whole shitty system
- 23:45gets paid except for he goes, "Except
- 23:47for me,
- 23:48a supervisory FBI agent who has to live
- 23:50in the Washington D.C. area, and I make
- 23:52150k a year, which is a lot,
- 23:55but it's not a lot when you're compared
- 23:57to 1.4 billion
- 23:59from the president,
- 24:01Howard Lutnick making multiple billions
- 24:03several times over with Tether.
- 24:06And you go you understand the
- 24:08frustration. Obviously, committing a
- 24:10crime is wrong
- 24:11unless of course you're in the White
- 24:13House, in which case committing a crime
- 24:16is awesome.
- 24:18Anyway, thanks to Mike Allen, William
- 24:19Thomas, Deborah, Jeff, Christine, G
- 24:20Matt, Dan, Al, Don, James B, C, Tree,
- 24:22and all other Tennessee folks. We really
- 24:23appreciate you guys. We can't We'll
- 24:25catch you on the next one. Cheers.