According to Odaily Planet Daily, the Southern District Court of New York rejected Samourai Wallet founder Keonne Rodriguez's request to modify bail conditions. The prosecutor submitted Rodriguez's handwritten "escape preparation" notes as evidence, which detailed travel plans and emergency items.
Rodriguez's lawyers argued that this was just a general contingency plan, but prosecutors believed it was an active escape plan. Earlier, Rodriguez and co-founder William Lonergan Hill were arrested in April for operating an unregistered money transmission business involving $2 billion in illegal transactions and $100 million in money laundering transactions.
The founders’ lawyers cited a letter from two senators in May, accusing the Justice Department of over-interpreting non-custodial crypto asset software services.
