{"id":854978,"date":"2025-06-12T00:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/samourai-wallet-prosecutors-consider-dropping-case\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T00:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:12:38","slug":"samourai-wallet-prosecutors-consider-dropping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/samourai-wallet-prosecutors-consider-dropping-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Samourai Wallet Prosecutors Consider Dropping Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content_box\">\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e38b8bb52d73e5a214ca08df44dbea8cef29a237b2d01ae4763559e9368bc44?s=32&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g\"  height=\"32\" width=\"32\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<p><span><span>By <a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/author\/phi_ma\" title=\"Posts by Philip Maina\" rel=\"author\">Philip Maina<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>1 month ago<span>Sun May 04 2025 04:59:44<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><img width=\"1300\" height=\"890\" src=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Samourai-Wallet-Prosecutors-Consider-Dropping-Case.png\" alt=\"bitcoins Samourai-Wallet-Prosecutors-Consider-Dropping-Case\" title decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Samourai-Wallet-Prosecutors-Consider-Dropping-Case.png\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span><span>Reading Time: <\/span> <span> 2<\/span> <span>minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Samourai Wallet prosecutors are considering dropping the case against the wallet<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The prosecutors have joined hands with the wallet\u2019s creators to request a time extension to contemplate such a possibility<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The wallet had earlier requested the court to drop the case\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Samourai <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/why-is-storing-bitcoin-so-important-and-how-to-do-it\"><span>Wallet<\/span><\/a><span>\u2019s prosecutors have requested a 16-day extension of pretrial motions to contemplate dropping the case against the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/crypto-essentials-an-overview-of-bitcoin\"><span>Bitcoin<\/span><\/a><span> mixer. The wallet\u2019s developers had earlier asked the court to drop the case, claiming that the U.S. Department of Justice had disbanded the crypto unit tasked with handling such cases, adding that the DOJ vowed not to prosecute crypto mixing platforms. In a joint <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.620167\/gov.uscourts.nysd.620167.84.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>letter<\/span><\/a><span>, Samourai Wallet and the prosecutors hinged their move on a memo issued by the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, \u201cending regulation by enforcement,\u201d which puts the prosecutors in an awkward position when arguing the Samourai Wallet case.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoins <span>Samourai Counsel Meets Prosecutors<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>According to the letter, Samourai Wallet\u2019s \u201ccounsel met with prosecutors and their supervisor in person at the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office\u201d on April 24 to discuss dismissing the case. It further stated that the 16-day continuance of the scheduled pretrial motions will save Samourai Wallet \u201cthe significant expense of preparing their motions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The wallet\u2019s founders, <\/span><span>Keonne Rodriguez<\/span><span> and William Lonergan Hill, were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-on-money-laundering-charges\"><span>charged<\/span><\/a><span> in April last year with money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting offenses. The founders were also accused of using the wallet to execute \u201cover $2 billion in unlawful transactions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoins <span>Samourai Wallet\u2019s Website Seized<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>The allegations against Rodriguez and Hill caused authorities to shut down the Samourai wallet and its website. Samourai Wallet\u2019s case resembles that of Tornado Cash, a crypto mixing service under the feds\u2019 scrutiny due to its alleged use by criminals. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned the platform, prohibiting Americans from using it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Treasury, however, recently removed Tornado Cash from the list of sanctioned parties, and a federal court prohibited it from re-sanctioning the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With Blanche ending the regulation of crypto projects by enforcement, it\u2019s likely that the prosecutors will drop the case against Samourai Wallet.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Philip Maina <a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/samourai-wallet-prosecutors-consider-dropping-case?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=samourai-wallet-prosecutors-consider-dropping-case\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Philip Maina 1 month agoSun May 04 2025 04:59:44 Reading Time: 2 minutes Samourai Wallet prosecutors are considering dropping the case against the wallet The prosecutors have joined hands with the wallet\u2019s creators to request a time extension to contemplate such a possibility The wallet had earlier requested the court to drop the case\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105102,25349],"tags":[11476],"class_list":{"0":"post-854978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-samourai","8":"category-wallet","9":"tag-bitcoins"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}