{"id":5265,"date":"2025-04-13T18:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/justice-department-disbands-national-cryptocurrency-enforcement-unit\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T18:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:39:49","slug":"justice-department-disbands-national-cryptocurrency-enforcement-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/justice-department-disbands-national-cryptocurrency-enforcement-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice notified staff in a four-page memo on Monday evening that, \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d the agency was disbanding its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, which was dedicated to crypto-related investigations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the second-ranking official in the Justice Department and Donald J. Trump\u2019s defense attorney during the president\u2019s criminal trial, asserted that the agency \u201cis not a digital asset regulator\u201d and it would no longer target \u201cvirtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and offline wallets for the acts of their end users or unwitting violations of regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice notified staff in a four-page memo on Monday evening that, \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d the agency was disbanding its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1160,462,5508,1385,171,477,879],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-department","tag-disbands","tag-enforcement","tag-justice","tag-national","tag-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}