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Mel | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 According to who is it not a crime? If you have no KYC and you are laundering money for people and your advertising it and you’re putting it in your deck it’s against the law to promote money laundering services
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Kanzan | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It not a crime because there is no federal statute about operating a tor market.

It doesnt "promote money laundering" it simply acknowledges they have customers that use their service for illicit purposes.
That isnt "promoting money laundering."

you're pretty quick to jump up and down about "marketing money laundering services"
when essentially all we have is a jpeg in the indictment and the DOJs word for it.

you're acting like they took out a full page NYT ad WASH YOUR DNM BITCOIN WITH SAMOURAI

its not the same thing.
nowhere do they "promote money laundering" or advertise for that purpose.

although I have no doubt that is what the DOJ will argue and obviously you agree with them.

also expect their defense to make similar points to what i just did.
ie,
"having criminals as customers doesnt make you one." 
"noncustodial platforms do not have KYC/AML burden"
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Kanzan | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 kids,
when the DOJ says they have "marketing materials proving the defendants conspired to assist criminals avoid law enforcement detection"

DONT always believe them unquestionably. 

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Mel | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Well, I hope you’re right and I hope you understand the law like you think you do
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Kanzan | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I'm not claiming to be some legal expert Mel

I'm just pointing out the indictment gives no context for these jpegs and its ridiculous to take the DOJs word for what they are.
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Mel | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Once again, I’m not in love with the DOJ either but it’s fairly well-known that they spend a good amount of time putting a case together this indictment does not have all the evidence in it probably not even 1/10 of it was to get a warrant for the rest of it, they’ll put in the trial or they will use to get them to make a deal if it’s bad enough. I don’t like the American government but read any of their indictments about anything over the past couple of weeks for example they use dates and times and very seldom. Is it something they just threw together