Samourai Wallet has been seized and the devs arrested

[Overhung7319]

U.S. authorities seized the servers and arrested developers of Samourai Wallet.

Samourai was a non-custodial bitcoin wallet that allowed users to store & send Bitcoin privately. It is also had a coin mixing feature.

Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Thomas Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”); and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York...

www.justice.gov

This Website Has Been Seized

 

[0xDEADBEEF]

Also discussed here: Bitcoin & Human Rights with Alex Gladstein & Natalie Smolenski

"RODRIGUEZ and HILL operated Twitter accounts that encouraged and openly invited users to launder criminal proceeds through Samourai. For example, in or around June 2022, Samourai’s Twitter account — operated by RODRIGUEZ — posted the following message regarding Russian oligarchs seeking to circumvent sanctions:

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For the sake of privacy I hope that developers in this space really improve their OPSEC.

[1] Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

 

[jafo]

The dying empire is grasping at every straw!
Imagine if Iran, Russia, or China indicted some developers, helping Americans and Europeans avoid Russian sanctions.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

I was quite expecting to see the dreaded screen of death eventually

 

[jafo]

I was quite expecting to see the dreaded screen of death eventually

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These poor chaps hallucinated that the "rule of law" and "equality before the law"*** would be applied evenly across the board based on some memorandum of law written by some junior attorney or even paralegal for the retained high-priced senior attorney.

*** The law should apply to all people equally regardless of their status in society—rich or poor, young or old, regardless of their gender, race, culture, religion, or any other attribute.

One of the best jokes in history

 

[JohnLocke]

Yes, sooner or later, it catches up with everyone who doesn't follow the financial rules.

 

[JackAlabama]

These poor chaps hallucinated that the "rule of law" and "equality before the law"*** would be applied evenly across the board based on some memorandum of law written by some junior attorney or even paralegal for the retained high-priced senior attorney.

*** The law should apply to all people equally regardless of their status in society—rich or poor, young or old, regardless of their gender, race, culture, religion, or any other attribute.

One of the best jokes in history

George Orwell: 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'​

Yes, sooner or later, it catches up with everyone who doesn't follow the financial rules.

unless ones name is jp morgan or any other tbtf bank, then its just a slap on the wrist.

 

[jafo]

Yes, sooner or later, it catches up with everyone who doesn't follow the financial rules.

The ONLY antidote to this is solid OPSEC when disrupting or straying outside the boundaries of the prohibited acts!
Even if you or I follow the "rules" (assuming we are NOT "politically connected or privileged"), there are NO guarantees they will NOT indict us and throw us in a cage. No amount of ink & paperwork can stop bullets.

The ONLY antidote is "Satoshi's strategy!" ...

...which he copied exactly from FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, better known as Deep Throat (Watergate)

Source: How ‘Deep Throat’ Took Down Nixon From Inside the FBI. Former FBI deputy director William Mark Felt broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in 2005 that he was “Deep Throat,” the anonymous government source who helped take down President Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

 

[wellington]

Also discussed here: Bitcoin & Human Rights with Alex Gladstein & Natalie Smolenski

"RODRIGUEZ and HILL operated Twitter accounts that encouraged and openly invited users to launder criminal proceeds through Samourai. For example, in or around June 2022, Samourai’s Twitter account — operated by RODRIGUEZ — posted the following message regarding Russian oligarchs seeking to circumvent sanctions:

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For the sake of privacy I hope that developers in this space really improve their OPSEC.

[1] Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

25 yrs for a tweet

 

[jafo]

unless ones name is jp morgan or any other tbtf bank, then its just a slap on the wrist.