Elizabeth Warren rebuffs CZ defamation threat as ‘without merit’

Changpeng Zhao’s lawyer, Teresa Goody Guillén, reportedly threatened to sue Warren for “defamatory statements” on X after CZ secured a pardon from Trump.

A lawyer for US Senator Elizabeth Warren has hit back at allegations that she defamed Binance founder Changpeng Zhao in a social media post following US President Donald Trump’s pardon of him.

The New York Post reported on Tuesday that Zhao’s lawyer, Teresa Goody Guillén, threatened to sue Warren for “defamatory statements that impugn his reputation” unless she removed an Oct. 23 X post that cited “corruption” in Trump’s pardon of Zhao that same day.

Warren’s lawyer Ben Stafford said in a letter to Goody Guillén on Sunday obtained by Punchbowl News that “any threatened defamation claim would be without merit,” as the law Zhao “pled guilty to violating is an anti-money laundering law.”

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