Andrew C. Adams

Andrew is a former Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s National Security Division, served as the inaugural Director of the DOJ’s Russian Sanctions and Export Control Task Force, and supervised the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Money Laundering and Transnational Criminal Enterprises Unit from 2018 through February 2022. Today he is a Partner in the New York office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, and a member of the firm’s Blockchain & Cryptocurrency team.

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The U.S. Response to Binance Exec Tigran Gambaryan's Detention Is Shameful

A mid-tier employee of the crypto exchange and U.S. citizen is being wrongfully detained in Nigeria, former DOJ national security expert Andrew C. Adams argues.

Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's head of crime compliance, is one of two executives detained in Nigeria. (Shutterstock/Consensus)

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The FTX Hack: The Unsolved SIM Swap Mystery

New rules from the SEC and FCC, and the former’s own SIM swap incident, are likely to raise scrutiny on crypto firms to clamp down on a scourge of identity-hacks, says Andrew Adams, partner at Steptoe.

(Adam Gault/Getty Images)

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The Other FTX Case

Most of the charges facing SBF won’t ever be relevant to most crypto companies. But charges the government cannot pursue today could be, say Andrew C. Adams and Kane Smith, at Steptoe & Johnson LLP.

Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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