Hiring policy is none of the senator’s business and lobbying is freedom of speech, Coin Center director Jerry Brito reminded her.
Coin Center has responded to the letter it received from United States Senator Elizabeth Warren criticizing its practice of hiring former government officials. “We politely decline to offer further answers to your questions,” Coin Center director Jeremy Brito said.
Warren sent letters to Coinbase, the Blockchain Association and Coin Center on Dec. 18, after Politico ran an article that claimed the cryptocurrency exchange was hiring “a small army” of former government and law enforcement officials to represent its interests. Warren called the practice of hiring former officials “appalling” and said those officials “work on your behalf to undermine bipartisan efforts in Congress and the Biden Administration to address the role of cryptocurrency in financing Hamas and other terrorist organizations.”
Warren went on to acknowledge that the hiring practices she was referring to were perfectly legal:
