CryptoDad’s New Title Implies He Works in Government. He Doesn’t
- Ex-CFTC head has called himself agency’s ‘chairman emeritus’
- Giancarlo recently removed label from his LinkedIn page
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J. Christopher Giancarlo no longer runs a high-profile Wall Street regulator, but he found a way to keep some of the prestige of his old job: adopting the made-up title, “chairman emeritus.”
The moniker has surprised former political appointees at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where Giancarlo was President Donald Trump’s first chairman. While some ex-officials see the move as a questionable Trumpian attempt at self promotion, others say it crosses ethical lines by suggesting he maintains ties to a powerful watchdog for digital coins and the $610 trillion derivatives market.