The former policymakers are the latest D.C. insiders to join the ranks of advisers to major crypto companies seeking to shape how the industry is regulated.
Leonard Leo, the former executive vice president of the Federalist Society, directed a Republican polling company to pay the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “another $25K” for consulting work in 2012 and to bill a nonprofit organization for reimbursement, according to a document reviewed by the Washington Post.