Here is the actual lead in to him quoting that part:
> Anyway I said that there are only a few accusations of financing crimes or secretly trading against customers in the CFTC complaint, but there are not none, and I should quote them. Here’s this:
Judge for yourself if I am misrepresenting his view.
'Lim explained to a colleague that terrorists usually send “small sums” as “large sums constitute money laundering.” Lim’s colleague replied: “can barely buy an AK47 with 600 bucks.” And with regard to certain Binance customers, including customers from Russia, Lim acknowledged in a February 2020 chat: “Like come on. They are here for crime.'
We have no idea from this what sort of money laundering Hamas was doing on Binance, or if it was found ex-post, but we do know that at least one Binance employee thought they were using it for crime.
Said employee being the then chief compliance officer.
Your broad point is correct: Binance is not being dinged by the CFTC for money laundering or terrorist financing. But the allegations they hung out are far from trivial. (The core charge is also nontrivial, but for technical reasons.)
The CFTC want to prosecute Binance for violating restrictions on allowing US persons to buy and sell derivatives, but they are aware that this is somewhat weak sauce, because the people buying and selling are all sophisticated institutional players, and Binance themselves are only very dubiously subject to US jurisdiction.
So they make it into a case about 'funding terrorism' based on a casual remark from a chat log.