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Winklevoss brothers pressed Trump to dump pick for top Wall Street regulator
Cryptocurrency billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss pressed President Donald Trump this past weekend to reconsider his nominee to lead a small but powerful Wall Street regulator that helps oversee the $4 trillion market, according to people familiar with the matter. As senators prepared on Monday for a vote to advance Brian Quintenz’s nomination to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Facebook-famous billionaires, who now run the crypto company Gemini, reached out to Trump directly with concerns about Quintenz, said the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss the private conversation. The ... (full story)