{"id":35937,"date":"2022-09-13T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=35937"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:40:58","slug":"prominent-crypto-figure-leaving-department-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/prominent-crypto-figure-leaving-department-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Crypto Figure Leaving Department of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nicholas-quaid-who-was-in-charge-of-the-criminal-division-s-second-in-command-position-spent-his-almost-two-years-at-the-doj-developing-the-system-for-enforcing-and-passing-laws-about-crypto-crimes\">Nicholas Quaid, who was in charge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Criminal+Division%27s+second-in-command+position&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Criminal Division's second-in-command position<\/a>, spent his almost two years at the DOJ developing the system for enforcing and passing laws about crypto crimes.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"743\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-81.png\" alt=\"Prominent Crypto Figure Leaving Department of Justice\" class=\"wp-image-35939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-81.png 743w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-81-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-81-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><figcaption>Prominent Crypto Figure Leaving Department of Justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report from Bloomberg Law on Tuesday, a key figure in the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/godaddy-faces-lawsuit-over-illegal-domain-sales.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">making laws<\/a> and prosecuting crypto crimes is leaving the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Criminal Division's second-in-command, Nicholas Quaid, will leave his job at the end of this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his almost two years at the DOJ, Quaid worked hard to fight white-collar crime, with a particular focus on cryptocurrency. According to a report, when he was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/the-us-department-of-justice-arrests-couple-in-connection-with-the-2016-bitfinex-hack-and-recovers-3-6b-in-crypto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Criminal Division<\/a>, he set up and oversaw a department that looked into illegal use of digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/bloomberg-analyst-predicts-positive-bitcoin-comeback-in-next-six-months.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> Law says that Quaid is likely to return to Latham & Watkins in New York, where he was a partner before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Quaid, who was in charge of the Criminal Division&#8217;s second-in-command position, spent his almost two years at the DOJ developing the system for enforcing and passing laws about crypto crimes. According to a report from Bloomberg Law on Tuesday, a key figure in the process of making laws and prosecuting crypto crimes is leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":35939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[132,5016,1526],"class_list":["post-35937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-department-of-justice","tag-digital-assets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-81.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}