You're kidding me with this bullshit, right? I can't believe I wasted 16 minutes of my time to listen to this.
Every single legal case that ends in "nobody has to admit fault", you know damn well that there is shady stuff. Each time some bank settles with the SEC but doesn't have to admit fault, they did the crime. I know in this case they weren't found guilty, but all the author does is state that the worst case of the conspiracy theorists is probably not true.
The only reason he can conclude that today is a good day for BTC and tether is because the hammer hasn't yet dropped. So now we should get quarterly updates, well, lots of companies on exchanges fail to report their quarterly updates, so lets see what happens. But how will this be verified? Madoff had no problem showing statements of all the supposed investments that were made.
Lastly, the author, nor I guess the end result, explains why there are shady dealings to begin with. Why is the company not transparent? Maybe not every tether is printed out of thin air, but hey, just like fractional reserve banking, the banks only need 1 actual dollar for ever 9 dollars they lend out. Maybe tether is operating on a fractional reserve basis!
The only thing I think is really good for BTC is that if an issue with tether crops up, all those tethers will flood back into BTC, so the demise of stable coins can be seen as a huge initial bump for BTC. That's of course assuming you can still transfer your tethers to something. I'm of course not saying this will happen, but there is clearly a reason for all the opacity. So what is that reason?