Cz’s Lawyer Denies Binance Co-founder’s Pardon Was ‘pay-to-play’

Teresa Goody Guillén calls accusations a “pile up of false statements,” as she questioned the political immunity of critics like Senator Elizabeth Warren.

The lawyer for Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has denied that he somehow paid for a pardon from US President Donald Trump.

Appearing on Anthony Pompliano’s “Pomp Podcast” on Friday,  CZ’s personal attorney Teresa Goody Guillén described the criticism around CZ’s pardoning as a “pile up of a lot of false statements.”

“The media continues to refer to World Liberty as Trump’s company, and I haven’t seen anything to show me that that’s true,” she said, adding:

CZ spent four months in prison in 2024 and had to step back from Binance over charges relating to a failure to establish Anti-Money Laundering protocols at the firm.

The former Binance CEO was pardoned by Donald Trump in October, with the president stating that what CZ was locked away for “wasn’t a crime.”

Critics of the move, including Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, labelled the pardoning as “corruption” as CZ “boosted” one of Trump’s crypto ventures and “lobbied for a pardon.”

The former Binance CEO fired back that she couldn’t get her “facts right.”

Responding to Warren’s claims, Guillén questioned the immunity granted to US politicians, as she criticized Warren for incorrectly asserting that CZ had been convicted of a crime “he wasn’t convicted of,” alongside allegations of additional “criminal liability” against him for the pardon.

“This is actually an area where I’m hoping that we pay a little bit more attention because you know, the immunity that’s given to these folks is not what our founding fathers had wanted,” she said.

Source: CoinTelegraph