part,actor_id,actor_name,actor_role,accurate,overreach,wrong,unanswered
1,donald-trump,Donald Trump,President of the United States,A president is entitled to conduct business.,"Claiming the business is separable from the presidency while his envoy’s son runs the token venture, his pardoned ally holds 87% of the stablecoin, and his foreign intelligence partner holds 49% of the parent entity.",Characterizing documented trade data as baseless. The CFTC is now subpoenaing the records the administration called baseless.,Why enforcement agencies under his administration are only now investigating a pattern documented since October 2025.
1,markwayne-mullin,Markwayne Mullin,U.S. Senator (now Secretary of Homeland Security),"His disclosure is filed on time, per STOCK Act requirements.",,,Whether the independent third-party firm he credits made similar trades on behalf of other senators in the 24-hour window before the tariff pause.
1,cftc-selig,CFTC (Chair Michael Selig),Commodity Futures Trading Commission,Opening an investigation into the March 23 and April 7 oil futures trades.,,,"Why the investigation covers only oil futures. The S&P 500 futures side of March 23, the Hyperliquid whale trade, and the Polymarket war bets remain unaddressed by this or any other federal investigation."
1,sec-atkins,SEC (Chair Paul Atkins),Securities and Exchange Commission,Statutorily authorized to set enforcement policy.,"Declaring crypto tokens largely exempt from securities law — a position that conveniently resolves a class of cases that would have touched WLF, Sun, and related entities.",,Why no investigation of the S&P 500 futures side of the March 23 trade has been announced despite clear jurisdiction and documented anomaly.
2,steve-witkoff,Steve Witkoff,"U.S. Middle East envoy; co-founder emeritus, World Liberty Financial","He has been formally removed from WLF's operational roster, per WLF's own public disclosures.",Characterizing the removal as equivalent to divestiture without producing ethics disclosures that would demonstrate the financial separation.,,"Whether his ethics disclosures show divestiture or retained financial interest in the venture his son runs, whose revenue depends on outcomes of the negotiations Witkoff himself conducts."
2,zach-witkoff,Zach Witkoff,"Co-founder and president, World Liberty Financial",He has operational authority over WLF. That is his documented role.,Positioning WLF's revenue model as disconnected from his father's diplomatic role while the venture's chief asset classes move with the geopolitical outcomes his father negotiates.,,"What information, if any, has moved between the envoy's office and WLF's treasury function. No compelled disclosure has tested this."
2,justin-sun,Justin Sun,"Crypto executive; investor, World Liberty Financial",His public allegations about the Dolomite extraction are supported by on-chain evidence.,"Positioning himself as whistleblower while omitting the self-interest dimensions of his defection — his own frozen position, his regulatory history, his prior alignment with the venture he now accuses.",,Why he aligned with WLF in the first place given the structural similarities to enforcement patterns he had previously faced.
2,changpeng-zhao,Changpeng Zhao,"Founder, Binance; pardoned October 2025",He served his sentence and was pardoned.,"The pardon's scope — whether it covers future conduct, whether it reached conduct not charged in the original plea — has not been publicly clarified.",,Whether any conditions attached to the pardon touched Binance's subsequent business decisions regarding USD1 or WLF.
2,tahnoun-bin-zayed,Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan,"UAE National Security Adviser; chair, MGX",MGX made the $500M investment; Tahnoun chairs MGX; the UAE government is the ultimate beneficial owner. All on the record.,,,"What governance rights MGX obtained. What information-sharing arrangements, if any, were part of the deal. Whether the AI chip approvals that followed involved communications between the envoy's office and Tahnoun's offices."
3,donald-trump,Donald Trump,President of the United States,A president may conduct personal business. That is constitutionally permitted.,"Characterizing the business as separable from the presidency while the crypto venture's valuation depends on regulatory decisions he controls, his envoy's son runs the venture, his pardoned ally holds 87% of the stablecoin, and a foreign intelligence partner owns 49% of the parent.","Characterizing documented trading data as ""baseless."" The CFTC is now subpoenaing the data the administration called baseless.","Whether any WLF-affiliated party held positions that profited from the eight documented trading incidents. His ethics disclosures, which would begin to answer this, are not on the public record."
3,steve-witkoff,Steve Witkoff,U.S. Middle East envoy,WLF has formally removed him from the venture's operational roster.,Allowing the removal to stand as a substitute for a divestiture whose documentation has not been released.,,Whether his ethics disclosures show divestiture or retained financial interest. His son runs the venture; his negotiations move the oil price the venture's revenue tracks; his disclosures are not public.
3,zach-witkoff,Zach Witkoff,"Co-founder and president, World Liberty Financial",He operates the venture. That is his documented role.,Positioning WLF's revenue model as disconnected from his father's diplomatic role while the venture's primary asset classes track outcomes his father negotiates.,,"What information, if any, has moved between the envoy's office and WLF's treasury. No compelled disclosure has tested this."
3,justin-sun,Justin Sun,Crypto executive; WLF investor (defected April 2026),His allegations about the Dolomite extraction are supported by on-chain evidence independent of his motives.,"Positioning himself as whistleblower while omitting the self-interest dimensions of his reversal — a frozen position, a regulatory history, prior alignment with the venture he now accuses.",,Why he aligned with WLF in the first place given the structural similarities to enforcement patterns he had previously faced.
3,garrett-jin,Garrett Jin,"Former CEO, BitForex; named in Hyperliquid whale disclosure",He has disclosed that the $200M Hyperliquid position used a client's funds.,,,The client's identity. No regulator has compelled an answer.
3,cftc-selig,CFTC (Chair Michael Selig),Commodity Futures Trading Commission,Opening the formal investigation into the March 23 and April 7 oil futures trades. The first federal action responsive to the documented pattern.,,,"Why the scope covers only oil futures. The $1.5–2B S&P 500 side of March 23, the Hyperliquid whale, the Polymarket war bets, the 93% trader — all remain unaddressed."
3,sec-atkins,SEC (Chair Paul Atkins),Securities and Exchange Commission,Statutorily authorized to set enforcement policy.,Declaring crypto tokens largely exempt from securities law — a position that conveniently resolves a class of pending cases including Sun's. Pushing out the enforcement director who disagreed.,,Why no investigation of the S&P 500 futures side of March 23 has been announced despite clear jurisdiction and documented anomaly.
3,doj-bondi,DOJ (Attorney General Pam Bondi),Department of Justice,The attorney general sets prosecutorial priorities. That is the office's authority.,"Declining to answer direct Senate questions about whether the Homan bribe was taken. Reducing the Public Integrity Section by 94 percent (36 to 2). Closing the Homan investigation. Canceling 159 enforcement actions, 30+ against Trump donors.",,The current status of the Public Integrity Section. Whether any federal investigation of the trading pattern exists beyond the CFTC's oil futures scope.
3,congress-oversight,Congressional Oversight,"Senate Banking, House Financial Services, committee leadership",Senator Warren's letter to Atkins and House Democrats' letter about Sun are on the public record.,,,Why no subpoena has been issued for the Witkoff disclosures. Why no hearing has been scheduled on the eight-incident trading pattern. Why the congressional disclosure database — public — has not been compiled for the April 9 window.
3,markets-press,The financial press,"Bloomberg, Reuters, FT, WSJ, and others",The individual reporting is documented and substantial. Bloomberg's Tag 50 reporting is the investigation's most important single thread.,Treating each incident as an isolated story rather than a pattern. Under-reporting the network connections across outlets.,,"The compilation this piece attempts. No major outlet has placed the fee machine, the trading pattern, the network, and the enforcement collapse in a single frame — which is the move that makes the structural claim visible."