Who are Samourai Wallet's Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill?
Samourai Wallet has had its website seized, its app removed from the Google App Store, and two of its lead developers — Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill — arrested. According to a press release from the Department of J US tice ( DoJ ), 35-year-old Rodriguez and 65-year-old Hill helped to move $100 million worth of laundered funds and facilitated over $2 billion worth of unlawful transactions. Samourai Wallet, a cryptocurrency mixing service, was well-known in the industry for its abrasive social media presence and for flouting rules and regulations. It also welcomed Russian oligarchs to the platform when US sanctions began. According to Rodriguez’s LinkedIn profile, he’s an Oxford graduate, and Hill says he attended the French National Conservatory of Arts. The pair are listed as directors of a now-dissolved UK company called Katana Cryptographic LTD and both claim to have held positions at a company called Consign Holdings AB. Read more: Vitalik B...