In a letter to the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the defense in the Samourai Wallet case illustrate why a hearing on the prosecution’s withholding key information in the case is in order.
The prosecutors in the Samourai Wallet case have stated that they did not violate any legal norms in only recently sharing key details of a discussion that they had with members of FinCEN in August 2023 and push to move forward with the case.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crime Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) is now facing serious questions after a new court filing reveals it charged the developers...
The DOJ memo halts prosecutions of crypto tools for user crimes, but leaves developers like Samourai Wallet in legal limbo amid ongoing high-profile cases.
Almost one year after the U.S. government charged the Samourai Wallet developers with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, the developers appeared in court for another pre-trial hearing.