今天早上，萨穆莱（Samourai）钱包开发商辩护的信基恩·罗德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·洛纳尔根·希尔（William Lonergan Hill）透露，纽约南部地区（SDNY）在刑事案件中抑制了剥夺性证据。

今天早上，萨穆莱（Samourai）钱包开发商辩护的信基恩·罗德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·洛纳尔根·希尔（William Lonergan Hill）透露，纽约南部地区（SDNY）在刑事案件中抑制了剥夺性证据。

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.

萨穆莱钱包开发商基恩·罗德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·洛纳尔根·希尔（William Lonergan Hill）今天上午提交的一封信透露，纽约南部地区（SDNY）在刑事案件中抑制了剥夺性证据。

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.

根据文件，检方在开发商起诉之前就征询了Fincen，以提出针对非监护服务的无牌货币传输费用的可行性。

“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.

芬本告诉检察官：“像萨穆莱这样的搅拌机不会通过拥有私人钥匙来监护加密货币，这强烈暗示萨穆莱不是作为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.”

在内部通信中，检察官说，他们可能会根据代码的“功能控制”提出费用，这可能是指萨摩莱对用户界面和萨穆莱·钱特（Samourai Wallet）的Coinjoin Server的控制。检方指出，这种论点“在指导中从未得到过解决”，他承认“这可能是一个困难的论点。”

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之间的通信在所谓的Brady请求之后被揭示了，命令政府移交任何可能降低指控开发商的证据。

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.

政府最新提起起诉后两周后，必须将剥夺性证据移交给辩方。该信称，这种高度相关材料的迟到可能已经误导了法院，这影响了对开发商的保释要求以及法官拒绝提出驳回动议的倾向。

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

辩方现在正在寻求听证会，以确定SDNY行为的潜在补救措施，包括驳回指控。

“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.”

辩方指出，“很难想象一个比我们在这里拥有的更清晰的'监管'。” “相关的监管机构告诉检察官，萨穆莱钱包不是货币发射机 - 在与罗德里格斯先生和希尔先生依靠指导其行为的同样的公共指导下，检察官继续起诉，并起诉他们经营无证货币服务业务。”

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对非监护服务提供商的立场与SDNY共享2019年的指南，该指南指出：“如果“主机对该价值具有全部独立控制，则应将加密货币钱包提供商归类为货币发射机（尽管仅根据所有者的指示访问该价值，但它只有合同的义务）。”

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.

长期以来，倡导团体和法律学者都认为，萨穆莱钱包开发商的起诉，以及对龙卷风现金开发商罗马风暴和罗马·塞恩诺夫的起诉，构成了对Fincen指导的明显侵犯。

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.

尽管萨穆莱（Samourai）的布雷迪（Brady）要求取得了成功，但龙卷风现金开发商罗马风暴（Roman Storm）的类似请求试图迫使政府披露“从OFAC和Fincen收到的任何材料尚未生产，包括去年与这些机构进行的任何实质性通信”，因为政府认为，政府认为Fincen并不是该案的起诉团队的一部分。

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上指出的那样，他在同一天被捕，萨穆莱钱包检察官就无执照的货币传输费用的可行性咨询了Fincen，这使得SDNY在整个Storm的起诉中似乎都意识到了其指控的范围。

“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.”

比特币政策研究所的负责人Zack Shapiro告诉比特币杂志，“ Fincen明确告知了SDNY检察官，萨穆莱钱包的非监护设计不需要货币发射机许可，但司法部对开发商起诉。” “这一起诉是通过刑事起诉的规定，直接违反了副代理人的指令，并破坏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.”

反洗钱专家JW Verret在X上写道：“布雷迪的违法行为。

“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告诉Bitcoin Magazine：“检察官试图从辩方中扣留这些信息的事实是一种严重的道德违规行为，最终可能会抛弃案件。” “那就是，如果主要正义有效地命令这样的案件，司法部没有将其放在一起。”

“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.”

“正如我们所说的，” Concenter的彼得·范·瓦尔肯伯格（Peter van Valkenburgh）在X上写道：“司法部无牌的货币传输起诉与法治完全反对。今天，我们得到了进一步的确认，检察官知道这与长期有监管的指导相矛盾，但无论如何都带来了指控。”

“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.

辩方在信中指出：“因此，如果他们不是在Fincen的指导下的货币发射机，那么他们不可能因没有许可而受到起诉，而没有实施反洗钱的控制措施，”提出对Samourai Wallet Developers的案件应完全抛弃。