Trump Vowed To Stop Crypto Crackdowns. Samourai Wallet Proves He Hasn’t.
For years, President Donald Trump complained that his predecessor had weaponized the judicial system against him on what he claimed were trumped-up charges, including election interference, mishandling classified documents, hush-money payments, and fraudulent tax and property dealings.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, the president seems wholly uninterested in stopping the very weaponization he once railed against.
This week, Keonne Rodriguez, the co-creator of the bitcoin privacy wallet Samourai, was sentenced to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine—the maximum sentence under the charge for which he pleaded guilty earlier this year. “In July, Rodriguez and…
