The Ny Attorney Full General Investigating Cryptocurrency Exchanges Resigns Next Abuse Claims From Multiple Women...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who I covered inwards a written report final calendar month next him launching an official query into cryptocurrency exchanges (link) has been hitting today amongst a scandal involving four women - causing him to resign his post.

In a controversy merely released, Schneiderman announced:

"It's been my keen award in addition to privilege to serve every bit Attorney General for the people of the State of New York. In the final several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, bring been made against me. While these allegations are unrelated to my professional person bear or the operations of the office, they volition effectively forestall me from leading the office's run at this critical time. I hence resign my office, effective at the closed of delineate concern on May 8, 2018."

The women spoke amongst The New Yorker in addition to went on the tape giving interviews stating Schneiderman had "repeatedly hitting them during the course of study of their relationships amongst him inwards recent years" in addition to fifty-fifty threatened to kill the women if they left him.

Schneiderman was investigating all the overstep exchanges in addition to how they operate, including Coinbase, Gemini, bitFlyer, Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Kraken, Bittrex, Poloniex, Binance, Tidex, Gate.io, itBit, in addition to Huobi - requesting information on "Their Operations, Use of Bots, Conflicts of Interest, Outages, in addition to Other Key Issues".

The resignation came next pressure level from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who stated publicly "for the skilful of the office, he should resign".

His replacement has non all the same been named.

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Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk