{"id":635417,"date":"2026-07-27T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=834387"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:05:38","slug":"lummis-clarity-act-closes-gaps-north-koreas-lazarus-group-used-to-steal-6-75-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/lummis-clarity-act-closes-gaps-north-koreas-lazarus-group-used-to-steal-6-75-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lummis: CLARITY Act Closes Gaps North Korea\u2019s Lazarus Group Used to Steal $6.75 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cynthia-lummis-says-fed-is-a-giant-black-hole-of-unaccountability-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cynthia Lummis talking at a conference.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said the CLARITY Act closes illicit-finance gaps that groups like North Korea&#8217;s Lazarus Group have exploited, arguing the bill hands the U.S. Treasury Department and crypto exchanges new authority to freeze suspicious transactions before funds move overseas. Section 303 and 305 Target Illicit Funds Cynthia Lummis, one of the CLARITY Act&#8217;s [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said the CLARITY Act closes illicit-finance gaps that groups like North Korea&#8217;s Lazarus Group have exploited, arguing the bill hands the U.S. Treasury Department and crypto exchanges new authority to freeze suspicious transactions before funds move overseas. Section 303 and 305 Target Illicit Funds Cynthia Lummis, one of the CLARITY Act&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-635417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635417","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=635417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}