| Samourai Wallet
Duo Pled Guilty Now Judge Asks
of Banning Hill from Crypto as X
Blocks
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Nov 19 – In another crypto
industry prosecution by DOJ,
on April 29 crypto-mixed
Samourai Wallet's Keonne
Rodriguez was presented and
released on bond in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Court, where Inner
City Press was the only media
present.
Rodriguez, 35, was released on
$1 million bond, to be secured
by a property at 610 Wood
Street, Harmony, PA 16037.
Jump cut to July
29, when an intent to change
plea was docketed.
Rodriguez'
co-defendant William Hill was
arrested in Portugal and
would, DOJ said, be
extradited.
Minutes later on
July 29, notice that Hill was
set to change plea, half an
hour after Rodriguez.
They did, and on
October 24 Rodriguez asked for
a year and a day on November
6, and Hill asked for time
served on November 7, both at
11
On October 31 the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking for five years on each
defendant.
Inner City Press
live tweeted on X Rodriguez'
sentencing to five years; it
was picked up in crypto media.
On November 17
Inner City Press got locked
out of its X account - and
this remains the case midday
on November 19 before Hill's
2:30 pm sentencing.
Judge Cote has
asked the parties to be
prepared to address a proposed
condition of supervised
release, to stay out of crypto
- order and proposed condition
on Patreon here
It is now USA v.
Rodriguez, et al., 1:24-cr-82
(Cote)
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