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In 2018 and 2019, Binance staff approached Gary Gensler, then a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair and now SEC chair, to become an adviser. Mr. Gensler, then teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was “likely back in a regulators seat if Dems win the 2020 election," a Binance employee told colleagues on a chat.
Ella Zhang, then head of Binance’s venture investing arm, and Harry Zhou met with Mr. Gensler in October 2018, according to the chat. Mr. Zhou wrote: “I observe that while Gensler declined advisor-ship, he was generous in sharing license strategies."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-chair-gensler-offered-serve-advisor-to-binance-lawyers-claim
According to the WSJ, which cited messages and documents from 2018 to 2020, Ella Zhang, who was then the head of Binance’s venture investing arm, and Harry Zhou, co-founder of Binance-invested firm Koi Trading, first met with Gensler in October 2018 to offer him an advisory position. Gensler later declined the offer.
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