{"id":233644,"date":"2022-04-14T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T23:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/crypto-company-says-it-s-shutting-down-hq-because-san-francisco-is-not-safe-but-there-s-more-to-the-story"},"modified":"2022-04-14T23:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T23:17:32","slug":"crypto-company-says-it-s-shutting-down-hq-because-san-francisco-is-not-safe-but-there-s-more-to-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/crypto-company-says-it-s-shutting-down-hq-because-san-francisco-is-not-safe-but-there-s-more-to-the-story","title":{"rendered":"Crypto company says it’s shutting down HQ because ‘San Francisco is not safe’ — but there’s more to the story"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo of Market Street in San Francisco, where Kraken’s global headquarters are located. (Kris Wong\/Getty Images) A San Francisco -based cryptocurrency exchange’s CEO announced the closure of its Market Street headquarters in the city for good — and blasted San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin in the process. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell, in a statement first shared by Boudin recall organizer and conservative mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg on Twitter , appeared to shame Boudin for employees getting harassed and for “crime, mental illness and drug abuse” in the city. “San Francisco is not safe and will not be safe until we have a DA who puts the rights of law abiding citizens above those of the street criminals he so ingloriously protects,” Powell wrote in the statement. Powell also praised police in his statement, saying they were “known to arrest the same offenders dozens of times” thanks to Boudin. (Powell misspelled his own name in the statement provided to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its CEO says it’s because “San Francisco is not safe.” But there’s likely more to the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}