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Samourai Wallet co-founders pleaded guilty in US, prosecutors say

( August 6, 2025, 20:41 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, the co-founders of Samourai Wallet, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to operate a money transmitting business that processed crime proceeds from, among other things, illegal dark web markets, cyber intrusions, a spear phishing scheme and schemes to defraud multiple decentralized finance protocols, the US Department of Justice said. They pleaded guilty on July 30 before US District Judge Denise L. Cote.Statement follows below:...

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