A bank gets caught violating sanctions and no one goes to jail.
Do you understand this? Are you seeing a theme here? This is an absolute travesty.
Watch this.
- Roman Storm wrote open-source code, convicted on one count August 2025, DOJ pushing retrial, up to 45 years exposure.
- Ian Freeman ran a bitcoin-for-cash exchange in Keene, wrote no software, doing 96 months right now.
- HSBC admitted laundering $881 million for Sinaloa and Norte del Valle cartels, paid $1.9 billion, no one went to jail.
- Roger Ver: fifty million and a gag order. A victim.
- Ross Ulbricht got a full pardon January 21, 2025. Trump can do it again. Storm. Freeman. Pardon them.
I am glad to see Ian has not been forgotten. My first post was about him (#51481)
@Scoresby , a thought just came to me (be it unconventional). I think I remember you spearheading AMAs in the past.
What if we do an AMA's with incarcerated Bitcoiners? I am guessing we may have to do it by mail or maybe telephone, with a Stacker relaying questions into the thread.
Obviously if by mail there would be some lag time.
I understand, the state does not punish based on moral clarity, it punishes based on threat to control
The world has been living in manufactured fear. Indeed
In related news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFtOepQKjiM
Samourai’s founders got 5 and 4 years for operating a privacy-focused crypto service tied to criminal proceeds.
HSBC moved vastly more dirty money through a global bank, paid a corporate penalty, and nobody went to prison.
Same genre of problem. Very different genre of defendant.