The District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Samourai Wallet founder Keonne Rodriguez's request to modify bail conditions. Prosecutors submitted Rodriguez's handwritten "Escape Preparation" notes as evidence, which detailed travel plans and emergency items. Rodriguez's lawyer argued that this was just a general emergency plan, but prosecutors believed it was an active escape plan. Earlier news came out that Rodriguez and co-founder William Lonergan Hill were arrested in April this year for operating an unregistered money transmission business involving $2 billion in illegal transactions and $100 million in money laundering transactions. The two founders' lawyers cited a letter from two senators in May of this year, accusing the Department of Justice of over-interpreting non-custodial crypto asset software services. (Decrypt)