Samourai Wallet’s lawyers claim that federal prosecutors suppressed the advice that the company did not need a license before accusing executives in the cryptography mixing service months later.
In a letter from May 5 to a Federal Court of Manhattan, the lawyers of the co -founders of Samourai, Keonne Rodríguez and William Hill, said the prosecutors revealed that the network of financial crimes of control of treasury crimes of the United States (FINCEN) of the chastic clutch representatives of Tairta Tairegadives, the orientation of the wallet license Samourai, the application of the Wallet, the application of Finn’s monetary services. “
“Surprisingly, six months later, the prosecutors themselves criminally accused Kerne Rodríguez and William Hill of operating only such business without a Finnn license,” the lawyers added.
The letter stated that prosecutors had to share their discussions with Finnen on Samourai two weeks after the charges revealed, making the deadline on May 8 of last year, but intended “suppressed this information for a year, 2025.” ”
The prosecutors accused the CEO of Samourai, Rodríguez, and their Head of Conspiracy Hill Technology to operate money without a license that transmits businesses and money laundering conspiracy in February 2024, revealing the positions and the couple in April is the year.
The Samourai Tok Crypto mixture service of multiple users and combined it to hide its origins. The Government claimed that the platform helped with more than $ 2 billion in illegal transactions and facilitated more than $ 100 million in transactions to praise the markets and black scammers online.
Rodríguez and Hill declared themselves innocent.
In the letter, their lawyers said prosecutors shared details of a call with Kevin O’Connor, head of Virtual Assets of FINCEN and the Emerging Technology section in the Compliance and Compliance Division, and the employee of the Lorena Valente policy division.
According to an enamel of one of the prosecutors that summarizes the call, Finn said that “because the samurai does not take the” custody “of cryptocurren [money services business]. “
The email said that O’Connor and Valente agreed that the government could try to argue that Samourai functionally controlled cryptography, “but that has never approached in the guide, so it could be a difficult argument” for prosecutors.
Samourai’s lawyers asked the court for a hearing “to determine the circumstances surrounding the late dissemination of the government” and administering a remedy.
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Rodríguez and Hill’s lawyers said that, using this last information, they would go for the charges to be dismissed, arguing that they lacked a fair warning and “understood that they were legally acting.”
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The prosecutors and Samourai asked the court for longer on April 28 to potentially dismiss the case after the Justice Department retreated its cryptocurrency application.
Rodríguez and Hill try to dismiss the case in early April, arguing that it should be withdrawn as the attached attorney general Todd Blanche said in the April 7 memorandum that the Department of Justice would not process the regulation mixers by “” “”
In the last letter, their lawyers said that if the government “resisted the directive of the MEMO de Blanche and advance”, then they would be asked to rule out as “if they are not transmitters of money under the guide of Finnn, then keep in mind that they are not the notes that are not notes notes Licd Notesis Notesis Notes Note Notes
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