Jim Lee has left the Internal Revenue Service after nearly 30 years. He will now be the global head of Capacity Building at Chainalysis, a blockchain-based research company.
Lee has been the IRS Criminal Investigation Director since most recently.
“Crypto is the future of finance, which also means it’s the future of crime,” Read the header of Lee’s introduction blurb.
Lee, who led IRS-CI at the time, helped to bring down dark-web marketplace Hydra. He also seized cryptocurrency that was being used to fund Hamas, and helped to take down Welcome to Video – a child-exploitation website based on crypto.
“[B]y equipping law enforcement agencies with the best-in-class tools and data to fight this activity, we can ensure that the crypto ecosystem remains as safe as possible, so that people around the world can realize its many benefits without fear of being targeted by criminals,” Lee added.
Initial focus of his role is to assist international agencies in combating crypto-crime.
When the IRS last appeared in news about crypto hires, it was for the opposite reason: To improve the IRS’s crypto tax compliance capability.
Blockworks had previously reported that Lee told Blockworks at the end of the last year the IRS was bringing more cases related to crypto tax evasion.
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Crypto companies have added new employees to the ranks as they prepare for a possible bull market.
DeFi was a part of the movement. Uniswap announced that several anonymous employees would be departing the company in this coming week. The first said that they were taking a position at Blackbird Labs – the Web3 loyalty app.
Uniswap didn’t hire only departures. Connor Chevli is a former Ava Labs developer who joined Uniswap. Avara (formerly Aave) also hired a new employee to help with growth.
Jack Corddry was formerly an engineer at Frax Finance. He now works as a software developer on the custody platform Waymont.
Jordan Walker was previously the head of Fidelity Digital Assets’ business development. He now heads up business development for crypto investment company Re7 Capital.
Some other notable news about hiring
- Token Relations was launched by Jacquelyn Melinek (former TechCrunch reporter) and Anthony Pompliano, media personality. The firm helps cryptocurrency projects to connect and communicate their communities.
- Binance has lost its Europe-based legal head.
- Michiel Schop joined Cardano’s gaming project Chains of War from Activision Blizzard.
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