> Tether hired Friedman LLP to audit them in ~2017/2018. Friedman literally walked out of the audit [1] because, and I assume this is true, it was just too sque

> Tether hired Friedman LLP to audit them in ~2017/2018. Friedman literally walked out of the audit [1] because, and I assume this is true, it was just too squeaky clean to bother finishing. Reading the source you linked it looks like tether's main criticism of Friedman is that they were 'too detailed'. God forbid that an auditor actually wants to get into the detail rather than just taking Tether's word for everything.