You can believe what you want.
Direct quote from the man himself, who presumably like other legal and financial professionals in other countries gets fired and blacklisted for lying, or random sentence - probably bot generated - from piece of shit crypto press? Hmm...
I'm going to settle for the former myself but that's just me.
People who are balls deep in crypto seem to forget that elsewhere deception has actual consequences because there's this new thing out called being accountable.