Samourai co-founder sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering case

According to Bloomberg, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency mixer Samourai Wallet has been sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering, having laundered hundreds of millions of dollars from illegal dark web transactions and fraud schemes. Keonne Rodriguez was sentenced on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, with the prison term being the maximum sentence for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business, to which Rodriguez has pleaded guilty.