Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses
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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@monero.town
    144·
    2 months 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/10-trillion-missing-pentagon-no-one-knows-including-dod/)

    “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:

  • silverpill@mitra.social
    103·
    2 months 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.

    • tusker@monero.town
      72·
      2 months 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==
      • SummerBreeze@monero.town
        1·
        2 months 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?

        • tusker@monero.town
          1·
          2 months 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.

  • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

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