Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Samurai Wallet Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering

2 years ago by gunnm to c/monero

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 Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging KEONNE RODRIGUEZ, the Chief Executive Officer and a co-founder of Samourai Wallet (“Samourai”), and WILLIAM LONERGAN HILL, the Chief Technology Officer and also a co-founder of Samourai, with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.

tusker 11 points 2 years ago

I wonder if they will look into the trillions stolen and laundered by the US "government"? ($10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon: https://anonhq.com/...)

"justice.gov" 😆 ... the state is a giant clown show 🤡

"facilitated more than $100 million in money laundering transactions from illegal dark web markets."

I am sure they have identified all the victims of these transactions. Major US banks facilitate $100 million in the fake crime known as "money laundering" about each hour.

Samourai overall facilitated around $2 billion in "unlawful transactions” between 2015 and the present, the release alleged.

"unlawful transactions” = arbitrary designations made up by the biggest criminals in the world

The real money laundering terrorists:

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VolunTerry 2 points 2 years ago

Preach!

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silverpill 8 points 2 years ago

@gunnm @monero Yet another attack on open source software developers and a wake up call for everyone, especially bitcoiners. If they will fail to save these guys, Bitcoin will be officially over.

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tusker 6 points 2 years ago

Any software development that threatens the power and control of the current dominant mafia should happen totally anonymously.

We need a decentralized github style platform with access from Tor and I2P. There is https://retroshare.cc/ which allows anonymous group communication, chat, mail, forums, file sharing.

Hit me up on RetroShare @

ABC/X43O4je1Xq1abL7+BPgAAxTWSXDD0EnGu4RmxbjT17HTJaKHpAEGdHVza2VykA8AAAABEV8xMjcuMC4wLjEEA1Z+Tw==

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Lemmchen 3 points 2 years ago

Retroshare comes with bundled I2P nowadays? Nice.

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SummerBreeze 1 point 2 years ago

This appears to be peer to peer nodes, but can you clarify if the other parties have to be online same time like Briar or Keet? If it isn't direct p2p, Did you setup a server or this is a public one?

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tusker 1 point 2 years ago

Not really sure at this point, just started experimenting with it. Just using the client on PC at this point but willing to run a server if it becomes useful and works in a true p2p anonymous fashion.

It would be awesome to have a truly decentralized place for Monero community to communicate.

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alphonse 5 points 2 years ago

A very sad day indeed

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azalty -3 points 2 years ago

Fuck that, financial anonymity and privacy should be a fundamental right

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some_guy -15 points 2 years ago

Good. All these mixing services have no purpose for existing beyond laundering ill-gotten gains.

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mister_monster 2 points 2 years ago

Username checks out.

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tusker 1 point 2 years ago

Compared to the communist scumbags running the US stealing and laundering trillions this mixing service laundered basically nothing. Total waste of money and time.

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Lemmchen 2 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, the US, the great communist regime! ...

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delirious_owl 1 point 2 years ago

Communist?

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tusker 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, America has been infiltrated by communists decades ago. Their first step was to implement a central bank, followed by many other subversive initiatives.

Watch this presentation to learn what has happened.

Communist Subversion https://odysee.com/...

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delirious_owl 1 point 2 years ago

I don't think you know what communism is.

If America was communist, then they'd have free housing and excellent health care. There are some countries in America that are communist, such as Cuba, that do have excellent healthcare.

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