Bloomberg News: Lutnick Puts Cantor’s Bankers ‘A Few Laps’ Ahead in Trump Era
By Todd Gillespie
March 17, 2025
Big believers in crypto toasted their good fortune and tucked into the lobster salad at Le Bernardin, the luxurious power restaurant in Midtown Manhattan.
Their host last Tuesday: Cantor Fitzgerald LP, longtime realm of Howard Lutnick, who’s now down in Washington serving as Donald Trump’s crypto-loving Commerce secretary. Michael Novogratz, self-styled “Forrest Gump of Bitcoin,” and the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, all attended the private dinner with Cantor. Paolo Ardoino, mastermind of the controversial Tether “stablecoin” — on his first ever trip to the US after earlier fearing arrest — was also among the cryptocurrency leaders who’d turned up.