{"id":609629,"date":"2026-06-04T22:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/comptroller-says-only-democrats-pressuring-over-crypto-trust-charter\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:52:42","slug":"comptroller-says-only-democrats-pressuring-over-crypto-trust-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/comptroller-says-only-democrats-pressuring-over-crypto-trust-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"Comptroller says only Democrats pressuring over crypto trust charter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Comptroller<\/p>\n

US Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould and New York Representative Gregory Meeks sparred over Donald Trump\u2019s influence on regulators he has nominated as president at a Thursday oversight hearing.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Gould, the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) nominated by Donald Trump,\u00a0implied that the US president had not ordered him to approve or give special consideration to a national trust charter application tied to his family\u2019s financial interests.<\/p>\n

In a Thursday hearing of the House Financial Service Committee on \u201coversight of prudential regulators,\u201d New York Representative Gregory Meeks questioned<\/a> Gould on the Trump family crypto company World Liberty Financial\u2019s connections to foreign governments and the Binance exchange. The company, whose co-founders include Trump and his sons, applied for an OCC charter<\/a> in January, prompting backlash from many Democratic lawmakers alleging conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n

Representative Gregory Meeks at a Thursday hearing. <\/em>
Source: <\/em>House Financial Services Committee<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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US Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould and New York Representative Gregory Meeks sparred over Donald Trump\u2019s influence on regulators he has nominated as president at a Thursday oversight hearing. Jonathan Gould, the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) nominated by Donald Trump,\u00a0implied that the US president had not ordered him to approve or give special […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-609629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}