New York prosecutors are apparently considering whether or not to eliminate their case against the co -founder of Samourai’s wallet, Keonne Rodríguez and William Lonergan Hill, according to a presentation of the court on Monday.
In a Joint Letter to District Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Both Prosecutors and Lawyers for Rodriguez and Hill Clock. Case Be Dismissed under the sponsors of us Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Recent Memo To The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Personal.
In his April 7 memorandum, Blanche announced that the Cryptographic Unit of the DOJ, the National cryptocurrency Control Team (NCET) would dissolve and instructed the staff to no longer bring cases against cryptographic exchanges, mixing services or off -line wallets “for the acts of its end users or violations not knowing the regulations.”
Blanche ordered that any ongoing investigation be inconsistent with this new policy that would be closed, and said that his office would work with the criminal division of the Department of Justice to “review the current cases with coherence with this policy.”
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Three days after Blanche memorandum, Hill and Rodríguez’s lawyers sent a letter to SDNY prosecutors “requesting the dismissal of the replacement accusation under the Blanche memorandum,” according to the presentation on Monday on April 24, the parties met to discuss the request.
Last April, Rodríguez and Hill were accused of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate a money transmission business without a license. The charges have a maximum sentence of 20 years and five years, respectively. Prosecutors said that Samourai’s wallet had facilitated around $ 2 billion in “illegal transactions” between 2015 and 2024, with the couple raising $ 4.5 million combined in rates.
