今天早上，薩穆萊（Samourai）錢包開發商辯護的信基恩·羅德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·洛納爾根·希爾（William Lonergan Hill）透露，紐約南部地區（SDNY）在刑事案件中抑制了剝奪性證據。

今天早上，薩穆萊（Samourai）錢包開發商辯護的信基恩·羅德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·洛納爾根·希爾（William Lonergan Hill）透露，紐約南部地區（SDNY）在刑事案件中抑制了剝奪性證據。

A letter filed this morning by the defense of Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill revealed that the Southern District of New York (SDNY) had suppressed exculpatory evidence in the criminal case.

薩穆萊錢包開發商基恩·羅德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·洛納爾根·希爾（William Lonergan Hill）今天上午提交的一封信透露，紐約南部地區（SDNY）在刑事案件中抑制了剝奪性證據。

According to the filing, the prosecution had consulted FinCEN prior to the indictment of the developers on the viability of bringing unlicensed money transmission charges against a non-custodial service.

根據文件，檢方在開發商起訴之前就徵詢了Fincen，以提出針對非監護服務的無牌貨幣傳輸費用的可行性。

“A mixer like Samourai that does not take custody of the cryptocurrency by possessing the private keys would strongly suggest that Samourai is not acting as an MSB,” FinCEN told the prosecutors, according to the filing.

芬本告訴檢察官：“像薩穆萊這樣的攪拌機不會通過擁有私人鑰匙來監護加密貨幣，這強烈暗示薩穆萊不是作為MSB。”

In internal communications, prosecutors stated that they may bring charges based on the “functional control” of the code, likely referring to Samourai’s control over the user interface and Samourai Wallet’s coinjoin server. The prosecution stated that such an argument “has never been addressed in the guidance,” acknowledging that “it could be a difficult argument to make.”

在內部通信中，檢察官說，他們可能會根據代碼的“功能控制”提出費用，這可能是指薩摩萊對用戶界面和薩穆萊·錢特（Samourai Wallet）的Coinjoin Server的控制。檢方指出，這種論點“在指導中從未得到過解決”，他承認“這可能是一個困難的論點。”

The communications between FinCEN and SDNY were revealed following a so-called Brady request, ordering the government to hand over any evidence that may exonerate the developers of the charges.

Fincen和SDNY之間的通信在所謂的Brady請求之後被揭示了，命令政府移交任何可能降低指控開發商的證據。

The government is required to hand exculpatory evidence over to the defense two weeks after filing its indictment at the latest. The late disclosure of such highly relevant materials may now have misled the court, the letter alleges, affecting both the bail requirements placed on the developers as well as the judge’s inclination to deny the filing of a motion to dismiss.

政府最新提起起訴後兩週後，必須將剝奪性證據移交給辯方。該信稱，這種高度相關材料的遲到可能已經誤導了法院，這影響了對開發商的保釋要求以及法官拒絕提出駁回動議的傾向。

The defense is now seeking a hearing to determine potential remedies to SDNY’s conduct, including the dismissal of charges.

辯方現在正在尋求聽證會，以確定SDNY行為的潛在補救措施，包括駁回指控。

“It is hard to imagine a clearer example of ‘regulation by prosecution' than what we have here,” the defense states, referring to the recent Blache memo. “The relevant regulator telling the prosecutors that Samourai Wallet was not a money transmitter – under the same public guidance that Mr. Rodriguez and Mr. Hill relied on to guide their conduct – and the prosecutors going ahead and indicting them for operating an unlicensed money services business anyway.”

辯方指出，“很難想像一個比我們在這裡擁有的更清晰的'監管'。” “相關的監管機構告訴檢察官，薩穆萊錢包不是貨幣發射機 - 在與羅德里格斯先生和希爾先生依靠指導其行為的同樣的公共指導下，檢察官繼續起訴，並起訴他們經營無證貨幣服務業務。”

FinCEN’s stance on non-custodial service providers shared with SDNY echoes its 2019 guidance, which stated that “a cryptocurrency wallet provider is to be classified as a money transmitter if “the host has total independent control over the value (although it is contractually obligated to access the value only on instructions from the owner).”

Fincen對非監護服務提供商的立場與SDNY共享2019年的指南，該指南指出：“如果“主機對該價值具有全部獨立控制，則應將加密貨幣錢包提供商歸類為貨幣發射機（儘管僅根據所有者的指示訪問該價值，但它只有合同的義務）。 ”

Advocacy groups and legal scholars alike have long argued that the prosecution of Samourai Wallet developers, as well as the prosecution of Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, constitute a clear violation of FinCEN guidance.

長期以來，倡導團體和法律學者都認為，薩穆萊錢包開發商的起訴，以及對龍捲風現金開發商羅馬風暴和羅馬·塞恩諾夫的起訴，構成了對Fincen指導的明顯侵犯。

While Samourai’s Brady request was successful, a similar request made by Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm attempting to compel the Government to disclose “any materials received from OFAC and FinCEN not already produced, including any substantive communications with those agencies” was denied last year, as the Government argued that FinCEN is not part of the prosecution team on the case.

儘管薩穆萊（Samourai）的布雷迪（Brady）要求取得了成功，但龍捲風現金開發商羅馬風暴（Roman Storm）的類似請求試圖迫使政府披露“從OFAC和Fincen收到的任何材料尚未生產，包括去年與這些機構進行的任何實質性通信”，因為政府認為，政府認為Fincen並不是該案的起訴團隊的一部分。

As Storm points out on X, he was arrested the same day Samourai Wallet prosecutors consulted FinCEN on the viability of unlicensed money transmission charges, making it appear as though SDNY has additionally been aware of the stretch of its charges for the entirety of Storm’s prosecution.

正如Storm上在X上指出的那樣，他在同一天被捕，薩穆萊錢包檢察官就無執照的貨幣傳輸費用的可行性諮詢了Fincen，這使得SDNY在整個Storm的起訴中似乎都意識到了其指控的範圍。

“FinCEN explicitly informed SDNY prosecutors that Samourai Wallet’s non-custodial design did not require money transmitter licensing, yet the DOJ indicted the developers regardless,” Bitcoin Policy Institute’s Head of Policy Zack Shapiro tells Bitcoin Magazine. “This prosecution exemplifies regulation by criminal indictment, directly defying Deputy AG Blanche’s directive and undermining the Trump Administration’s crypto policies.”

比特幣政策研究所的負責人Zack Shapiro告訴比特幣雜誌，“ Fincen明確告知了SDNY檢察官，薩穆萊錢包的非監護設計不需要貨幣發射機許可，但司法部對開發商起訴。” “這一起訴是通過刑事起訴的規定，直接違反了副代理人的指令，並破壞了特朗普政府的加密政策。”

“Brady violation,” writes anti-money laundering expert J.W. Verret on X. “Case should be tossed on that alone, much less the new DOJ memo effectively ordering SDNY to drop the case.”

反洗錢專家JW Verret在X上寫道：“布雷迪的違法行為。

“The fact that prosecutors attempted to withhold this information from the defense is a serious ethical violation and may end up getting the case tossed,” Verret tells Bitcoin Magazine. “That is if the DOJ doesn’t drop it all together given that main justice has effectively ordered the cases like this be dropped.”

Verret告訴Bitcoin Magazine：“檢察官試圖從辯方中扣留這些信息的事實是一種嚴重的道德違規行為，最終可能會拋棄案件。” “那就是，如果主要正義有效地命令這樣的案件，司法部沒有將其放在一起。”

“As we’ve said,” writes CoinCenter’s Peter van Valkenburgh on X, “the DOJ’s unlicensed money transmission prosecutions are straight up counter to the rule of law. Today we got further confirmation that the prosecution understood it was contradicting long-standing regulatory guidance but brought charges anyway.”

“正如我們所說的，” Concenter的彼得·範·瓦爾肯伯格（Peter van Valkenburgh）在X上寫道：“司法部無牌的貨幣傳輸起訴與法治完全反對。今天，我們得到了進一步的確認，檢察官知道這與長期有監管的指導相矛盾，但無論如何都帶來了指控。”

“It follows that if they were not money transmitters under FinCEN’s guidance,” the defense states in their letter, “then they could not possibly be prosecuted for not having a license and not implementing anti- money laundering controls,” alluding that the case against Samourai Wallet developers should be thrown out altogether.

辯方在信中指出：“因此，如果他們不是在Fincen的指導下的貨幣發射機，那麼他們不可能因沒有許可而受到起訴，而沒有實施反洗錢的控制措施，”提出對Samourai Wallet Developers的案件應完全拋棄。