Then how can they put him in jail?
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Taking a plea deal isn't the same as being convicted and setting a court ruling precedent. A precedent would have been set if they were convicted of conspiracy to to commit money laundering. They plead guilty to running a money service business without a license.
Okay, this is good. Err, silver lining, I guess.
yep, exactly. it's the slim upside of a plea , the real danger was *conviction on the full ML conspiracy*, which would've given feds a shiny “running a privacy wallet = laundering” template to copy-paste at every dev they dislike.
so no jurisprudential blood trail, but keonne still loses his freedom *for writing code*. that’s the raw injustice here.