They pleaded to conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitting business.
FinCEN told them they did not need a license and did not have a process in place to allow non-custodial entities to get a license.
Their prosecution was political and nothing they did was actually illegal under the letter of the law.
tdub
npub188…lyaeg
2026-06-03 18:25:29 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…km7g
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