Samourai Wallet的律师指控联邦检察官抑制了该公司不需要许可证的建议

Samourai Wallet的律师指控联邦检察官抑制了该公司在向加密货币混合服务收取高管之前不需要许可证的建议

Lawyers for Samourai Wallet have accused federal prosecutors of suppressing advice from the US Treasury that the crypto mixing service didn't need a license.

Samourai Wallet的律师指责联邦检察官抑制了美国财政部的建议，即加密货币混合服务不需要许可。

Samourai co-founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill's lawyers said in a May 5 letter that, six months before they charged the pair, FinCEN representatives told prosecutors that, under its guidance, the Samourai Wallet app would not qualify as a 'Money Services Business' requiring a FinCEN license.

萨穆莱（Samourai）联合创始人基恩·罗德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·希尔（William Hill）的律师在5月5日的一封信中说，在他们指控这对夫妇的六个月之前，Fincen代表告诉检察官，在其指导下，Samourai Whallet App不符合需要Fincen许可证的“货币服务业务”。

“Shockingly, six months later, the same prosecutors criminally charged Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill with operating just such a business without a FinCEN license,” the lawyers added.

律师补充说：“令人震惊的是，六个月后，同一名检察官犯有刑事指控的基恩·罗德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·希尔（William Hill）的经营权，没有执行此类业务。”

They claimed that prosecutors were required to share their discussions with FinCEN over Samourai two weeks after they unsealed charges, making the deadline May 8 last year, but instead “suppressed this information for over a year, disclosing it only on April 1, 2025.”

他们声称，检察官被要求在未密封指控两周后与Fincen分享他们的讨论，去年5月8日截止日期，但“抑制了一年以上，仅在2025年4月1日披露了这些信息”。

Prosecutors charged Samourai CEO Rodriguez and its technology chief Hill with conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and money laundering conspiracy in February 2024, unsealing the charges and arresting the pair in April that year.

检察官指控萨穆莱（Samourai）首席执行官罗德里格斯（Rodriguez）及其技术酋长山（Conspiracy）在2024年2月在未经许可的货币传输商业和洗钱阴谋上经营货币，并于当年4月取消了指控并逮捕了这对。

Samourai's mixing service took crypto from multiple users and blended it together to hide its origins. The government alleged the platform helped with over $2 billion in illegal transactions and facilitated over $100 million worth of money laundering transactions from online black markets and scammers.

Samourai的混合服务吸引了来自多个用户的加密货币，并将其混合在一起以隐藏其起源。政府声称该平台提供了超过20亿美元的非法交易，并促进了超过1亿美元的在线黑市和骗子的洗钱交易。

Rodriguez and Hill both pleaded not guilty.

罗德里格斯（Rodriguez）和希尔（Hill）都不不认罪。

In the letter, their lawyers said prosecutors shared details of a call with Kevin O’Connor, chief of FinCEN’s Virtual Assets and Emerging Technology Section in the Enforcement and Compliance Division, and Policy Division staffer Lorena Valente.

他们的律师在信中说，检察官与Fincen的虚拟资产和新兴技术部门负责执法和合规部以及政策部工作人员Lorena Valente的凯文·奥康纳（Kevin O'Connor）分享了电话的详细信息。

According to an email from one of the prosecutors summarizing the call, FinCEN said that “because Samourai does not take 'custody' of the cryptocurrency by possessing the private keys to any addresses where the cryptocurrency is stored, that would strongly suggest that Samourai is NOT acting as an MSB [money services business].”

根据一位检察官的一封电子邮件总结了电话，Fincen说：“因为Samourai并没有将私人钥匙掌握到存储加密货币的任何地址，这不会强烈表明Samourai并不是一家MSB [货币服务业务]。”

The email said O'Connor and Valente agreed that the government could try to argue that Samourai functionally controlled the crypto, “but that has never been addressed in the guidance, and so it could be a difficult argument” for prosecutors.

该电子邮件说，奥康纳（O'Connor）和瓦伦特（Valente）同意，政府可以试图争辩说，萨穆莱（Samourai）在功能上控制了加密货币，“但这在指导中从未解决过，因此对于检察官来说可能是一个困难的论点。”

Samourai's lawyers asked the court for a hearing “to determine the circumstances surrounding the Government’s late disclosure” and to administer a remedy.

Samourai的律师要求法院举行听证会“确定政府延迟披露的情况”并进行补救措施。

Samourai to renew dismissal bid if case goes on

如果案件继续前进

Rodriguez and Hill's lawyers said that, using this latest information, they would again ask for the charges to be dismissed, arguing they lacked fair notice and “understood they were acting lawfully.”

罗德里格斯（Rodriguez）和希尔（Hill）的律师说，使用此最新信息，他们将再次要求驳回指控，并认为他们缺乏公平通知，并“理解他们正在合法行事”。

Prosecutors and Samourai asked the court for more time to consider potentially dismissing the case after the Justice Department rolled back its crypto enforcement.

检察官和萨穆莱（Samourai）在司法部撤销其加密执法后，请法院有更多一些时间考虑可能驳回此案。

Rodriguez and Hill bid to dismiss the case in early April, arguing it should be dropped as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an April 7 memo that the Justice Department wouldn’t prosecute crypto mixers for “unwitting violations of regulations.”

罗德里格斯（Rodriguez）和希尔（Hill）在4月初驳回此案，认为应该将其撤销，因为副检察长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）在4月7日的备忘录中说，司法部不会起诉加密货币架“不愿违反法规”。

In the latest letter, their lawyers said if the government "were to resist the Blanche Memo’s directive and push forward," then they would bid to dismiss as "if they were not money transmitters under FinCEN’s guidance, then they could not possibly be prosecuted for not having a license."

他们的律师在最新信中说，如果政府“抵制布兰奇备忘录的指令并推动”，那么他们将愿意驳回为“如果他们不是芬本的指导下的货币发射机，那么他们就不可能因没有许可而被起诉。”