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Samourai Wallet's founders are sentenced

Keonne Rodriguez received five years in prison and William Lonergan Hill four, after both pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.

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Prosecutors said more than $237 million in criminal proceeds had passed through the service, and the pair agreed to forfeit almost $238 million between them. Hill was sentenced on 19 November, about two weeks after Rodriguez.