Samourai Wallet’s defense accuses prosecutors of withholding FinCEN guidance for over a year, revealing only on April 1, 2025, that FinCEN had previously told them Samourai Wallet likely did not require a money transmitter license.

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May 5, 2025

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The letter 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.”

Prosecutors went ahead and charged Rodriguez and Hill anyway, and did not tell either the court or Samourai Wallet’s lawyers about their communication with FinCEN until April 1, 2025.

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Week 19 of 2025