Mallard Beakman on Nostr: I'm having a harder time arguing against count one. Constitutional arguments aside, ...

I'm having a harder time arguing against count one. Constitutional arguments aside, 18 U.S.C § 1956(a)(1)(B)(I) is quite broad:

"Whoever, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a financial transaction which in fact involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activity—
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knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part—
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to conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, or the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity ...."

You can't really argue that Samourai didn't "conduct[] ... a financial transaction" when they collected a fee from it.

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How can Samourai Wallet be a "money transmitter" if it merely provides noncustodial software that never accepts or transmits currency? See 31 C.F.R. 1010.100(ff)(5). This could be a more egregious injustice than the Ross Ulbricht case.