参议员施压要求披露坎托·费茨杰拉德与泰达币的财务关系
负责调查常设小组委员会的首席民主党人理查德·布卢门撒尔参议员,正积极寻求了解投资银行坎托·费茨杰拉德(Cantor Fitzgerald)与世界最大稳定币发行商泰达币(Tether)之间的财务关系。他在周四发出的一封正式信函中,要求坎托董事长布兰登·卢特尼克详细说明该行对泰达币在银行合规及制裁遵守方面的监督情况。此外,他还索要了商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克关于泰达币的所有通信记录,包括霍华德卸任坎托领导职务后的相关沟通内容。
去年获得参议院确认后,霍华德·卢特尼克辞去了坎托的领导职位,由其儿子接任。据布卢门撒尔参议员指出,在过去两年中,得益于与泰达币的合作,坎托与霍华德·卢特尼克获得了巨大的经济利益。据报道,在此期间卢特尼克获利超过2.5亿美元,其中包括从公司获得的1.92亿美元分红。
参议院调查人员将泰达币与非法行为联系起来
2024年,坎托达成了一项协议,使其持有泰达币5%的股份,目前据报道还负责保管价值数百亿美元的该发行商持有的美国国债。布卢门撒尔声称,自特朗普Since returning to power, Canto's investment in TEDA has increased significantly, from US$600 million to a staggering US$10 billion.
Canto Fitzgerald's role in TEDA operations is not limited to his reported equity investment. The USDT aims to remain pegged to the U.S. dollar 1:1, while TEDA holds reserve assets to support tokens in circulation. U.S. Treasury bonds form an important part of these reserves and are a key part of the stablecoin issuer's financial infrastructure. Blumenthal's investigation aims to clarify the extent to which Canto supervised the relationship and whether the bank has taken enough measures to reduce compliance risks.
However, he believes that Canto Fitzgerald's commercial relationship with TEDA, while profitable, threatens U.S. national security. He said in the letter that the company needed to detail all actions it took in the investigation of allegations linking TEDA to financial crimes. The lawmaker specifically pointed out that the USDT could circumvent Russian sanctions and integrate into Iran's parallel banking system.
A Senate subcommittee found that TEDA kept certain wallets active despite clear indications that they were transferring or receiving large amounts of money associated with terrorism financiers and other illegal actors. The survey results showed that of the 846 Iran-related crypto-wallets subject to sanctions, 84% of all transactions were conducted using USDT.
报告发布后,布卢门撒尔参议员甚至敦促财政部和司法部进一步调查是否存在违反制裁的情况。稳定币已成为加密货币市场的重要组成部分,因为它们允许用户在不完全依赖传统银行渠道的情况下转移与美元挂钩的价值。然而,这种便利性也给制裁执行带来了挑战,因为个人或组织可能利用数字钱包跨境转移资金。
虽然区块链交易可以被追踪,但要识别特定钱包背后的人员并确定某笔交易是否违反制裁,往往需要进一步的调查。参议院的质询旨在确定坎托·费茨杰拉德在维持与泰达币商业关系的同时,是否充分评估了这些风险。他辩称:“正如泰达币从用于这些非法活动的稳定币中赚取了无数利息和投资收益一样,坎托·费茨杰拉德也从其与泰达币的关系中获利。”
泰达币坚称正与执法部门合作打击非法活动
尽管如此,泰达币此前一直表示,多年来一直与执法部门合作,并在今年冻结了近5.5亿美元与伊朗相关的USDT。“泰达币始终证明,USDT并非被制裁实体、恐怖组织或犯罪网络的避风港,”泰达币首席执行官保罗·阿尔多伊诺(Paolo Ardoino)表示。
He concluded that the company had assisted authorities around the world in freezing more than $4.9 billion in assets, including more than $2.4 billion frozen through cooperation with U.S. authorities. "The record is public: The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Customs and Border Protection Division of Investigation (HSI), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and authorities around the world have worked with TEDA on multiple occasions to track, freeze and recover assets. We will continue to provide this capability to authorities committed to fighting terrorism, sanctions evasion, fraud and other serious crimes." He added.
Although Aldoino defended TEDA's cooperation with law enforcement agencies, the agency still faces multiple controversies. Last year, TEDA froze US$42.4 million in USDT related to Thai businessmen. However, the men are now suing the company, claiming that their assets were frozen without a warrant in October 2025 at an informal request from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Investigation. It wasn't until February 2026 that authorities in eastern North Carolina obtained a search warrant to seize funds as part of a $61 million case involving a "pig-killing tray" fraud. The order requires the destruction of tokens and the issuance of new tokens into government wallets.
The plaintiff also explicitly denied the government's allegations and distanced itself from any criminal act.

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