The New York prosecutors are considering that Samorai Wallet co-founder Keon Rodriguez and William Lonnagan Hill to leave their case, according to A, according to A. Monday court filing,
In a joint letter to District Judge Richard Burman of Southern District (SDNY) of New York, both Rodrigue and Hill prosecutors and lawyers requested that the case be allowed to allow a 16-day continuity, or expansion, “while the government has recently determined its position to request relaxation. Employees.
In its 7 April memo, Blanches announced that the Crypto Unit of DOJ would be dissolved, the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), and instructed the employees not to bring cases against the crypto exchanges, mix services, or offline wallets “violated the regulations of their final users or violated the regulations.”
Blanched ordered any ongoing investigation to stop this new policy, and said that his office would work with the Criminal Division of DOJ “review the matters running for continuity with this policy.”
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Three days after the mamo of the blanch, the lawyers of Hill and Rodrigues sent a letter to the SDNY prosecutors, “requesting to dismiss the supercessed prosecution under the Blanch Memo,” As per the filing on Monday, the parties met to discuss the request.
Last April, Rodrigue and Hill was accused of plotting money laundering and conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. The allegations decorate the maximum of 20 years and five years respectively. The prosecutors said that Samorai Wallet had provided a facility of about $ 2 billion in “illegal transactions” between 2015 and 2024, collecting a joint $ 4.5 million fee.
