{"id":69665,"date":"2020-09-17T21:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/citigroup-employee-who-ran-popular-qanon-site-put-on-leave\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:57:10","slug":"citigroup-employee-who-ran-popular-qanon-site-put-on-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/citigroup-employee-who-ran-popular-qanon-site-put-on-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"#Citigroup employee who ran popular QAnon site put on leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Citigroup employee who ran popular QAnon site put on leave<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or TV series visit the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/citigroup-benches-qanon-worker.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Citigroup said it has placed an employee on paid leave after he was unmasked as the operator of a popular website linked with the conspiracy group QAnon.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Gelinas \u2014 a 48-year-old resident of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, who is a senior vice president in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> group at Citi, according to a now-defunct LinkedIn account \u2014 was revealed last week to be the man behind QMap, a user-friendly website that collected and organized the various postings of Q, the pseudonym of QAnon\u2019s mysterious founder and leader.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Citi said it has placed Gelinas on paid leave for violating the megabank\u2019s guidelines for employees. Gelinas was earning more than $3,000 a month on a crowd-funded Patreon site dedicated to supporting the QAnon site, which he said helped cover the monthly operating costs, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs outlined in our Code of Conduct, employees are required to disclose and obtain <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rovals for outside business activities,\u201d Citi said in a Thursday statement.<\/p>\n<p>Gelinas was outed last week by Logically, a fact-checking <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> site whose investigation also found that he was a longtime Wall Street IT expert who joined Citi in 2003 after a stint at Credit Suisse.<\/p>\n<p>Reached by Bloomberg outside his home last week, Gelinas described QAnon \u2014 a conspiracy theory that claims President Donald Trump is battling a \u201cdeep state\u201d ring of child-sex traffickers \u2014 as \u201ca patriotic movement to save the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gelinas appears to be a major player in the secretive QAnon structure. His QMap site, which is now largely shut down, had more than 10 million users in July alone.<\/p>\n<p>Gelinas\u2019 apparent employment at Citi\u2019s information technology division could also signal he\u2019s part of a group that may have played a key role in the early retirement of the bank\u2019s CEO, Michael Corbat.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports last week, Corbat\u2019s exit was hastened after it became clear that federal regulators are preparing a formal reprimand for Citi for failing to upgrade the bank\u2019s outdated technology systems that protect it from risky behavior and other online threats.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with Gelinas\u2019 role at Citi told The Post that his unmasking and Corbat\u2019s resignation \u201chave nothing to do with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 10, Citi announced that Corbat will retire in February 2021, elevating Jane Fraser to CEO and making her the first woman to hold that role at a top-four American bank.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/17\/citigroup-employee-who-ran-popular-qanon-site-put-on-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Citigroup employee who ran popular QAnon site put on leave&#8221; If you want to watch Movies or TV series visit the Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com Citigroup said it has placed an employee on paid leave after he was unmasked as the operator of a popular website linked with the conspiracy group QAnon. 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