How do you get your memecoins seized by the DEA? Did he just leave his private key on a notepad or something?

why are you looking? do you think they're going to auction it off or something?

It's called civil forfeiture and it is completely fucked up. Basically, if you are SUSPECTED of using ANYTHING, including cash, for illegal purposes it can be seized. In these cases the burden of evidence is on the property and it is considered "guilty until proven innocent" since it has no rights. Yes, that means that in order to get back your money or car or house or boat or whatever you have to somehow prove that you had it for legitimate reasons and did nothing illegal/were not planning to do anything illegal with it.

There are tons of really fucked up things like this that is kind of swept under the rug. Nobody has heard of civil forfeiture really, or jury nullification, or mutual combat laws.

right, i'm just wondering how they actually gained access to the private keys

The answer is - the retard probably got scared and spilled the beans.

And that is how the American govt will kill crypto. They will say "It's only used for illegal purposes" and they get free reign to confiscate every single americans crypto. But they turn around and sell them because, well, the govt is crooked anyways.

The answer: Vices and testicles

they took his fiat too, smart guy. don't run a drug ring and you won't get shaken down.

justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/two-california-men-charged-large-scale-opioid-distribution-ring

FAIR. NEXT.

this. its always drug related reasons. dont buy or deal drugs and you wont get fucked.

civil forfeiture is still fucked tho, dumb fucking law

NEWARK, N.J. – Two California men were arrested today for their alleged roles in a large-scale opioid distribution conspiracy that involved the shipment of at least 500,000 fentanyl pills to New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.

Andrew Tablack, 26, of Beverly Hills, California, and Stephan Durham, 43, of Altadena, California, were both charged by complaint with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of cyclopropyl fentanyl. Tablack is also charged with distribution of 400 grams or more of cyclopropyl fentanyl. Both defendants were arrested this morning and appeared this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Walsh in Los Angeles federal court.

According to the complaint:

Beginning in August 2017, the Drug Enforcement Administration began an investigation into the distribution of fentanyl in the Monmouth County, New Jersey, area. Agents executed a search warrant at a Monmouth County residence that resulted in the seizure of a substantial quantity of controlled substances, including approximately 300,000 cyclopropyl fentanyl pills that allegedly had been shipped by Tablack to New Jersey. Tablack and his customers across the United States, including New Jersey, allegedly used the Dark Web – a part of the internet that is not accessible without specific software – to arrange shipments of quantities of cyclopropyl fentanyl to various places throughout the country. Tablack also used end-to-end encrypted communication applications to take orders for fentanyl from customers in New Jersey.

The New Jersey customers allegedly provided Tablack with residential addresses in Monmouth County to which the packages of fentanyl could be mailed and arranged to intercept the packages before they were delivered. Customers paid Tablack with Bitcoin, a form of cryptocurrency that is increasingly common in the narcotics trade due to its relative anonymity.

One such set of packages, mailed by Tablack in September 2017, was intercepted by law enforcement when it reached New Jersey. When the packages were opened, agents found that they contained 226,520 cyclopropyl fentanyl pills that weighed nearly 20 kilograms.

Tablack allegedly maintained a pill production facility in California. Shipping records revealed that Tablack had purchased at least nine pill press machines that were shipped to an industrial building in California. Records showed that a company ostensibly run by Durham was registered as the lessee of that industrial property.

Tablack allegedly purchased quantities of fentanyl from a laboratory in China that shipped the packages disguised as food and beauty products. Law enforcement officers in California were able to intercept several additional packages sent from various parts of Asia bound for properties controlled by Tablack and Durham, including fentanyl and dies used to mark illicitly manufactured pills.

The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a potential maximum penalty of life in prison, and a $10 million fine.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tazneen Shahabuddin of the U.S. Attorney’s Office General Crimes Unit in Newark.

>fentanyl
i hope they get rawdogged by aids-ridden niggers in jail

i'm okay with certain drugs. but if you sell opiates fuck you i hope you die

>Newark, NJ
Why am I not surprised?

Oh my god he was using fucking bitcoin. I bet he sent it straight to hsi bittrex account. what a fucking idiot. ITS CALLED MONERO YOU DUMB NIGGER

My mugshot was all over the local news for selling 1 gram of mdma and 10 hits of acid. I cant find a single picture of Mr. Andrew Tablack. Amazing. Fuck this dumb ass legal system. I wonder who this nigger knows.

This or he had a paper copy somewhere that wasn't very well hidden (like a safe deposit box or fireproof safe, so the first places they check). You gotta tape that shit to the top of your ceiling fan blades or some weird shit.

I fucking hate flying into that shithole of an airport when I want to visit upstate NY. Best prices from O'hare though.

cryptosteel.com/ you buy one of these things and chug em in your fireplace.

or keep a nano s up your butthole forever, that's how i do it

>icers in California were able to intercept several additional packages sent from various parts of Asia bound for properties controlled by Tablack and Durham, including fentanyl and dies used to mark illicitly manufactured pills.

A lot of people died because of those fent pills. They were probably fake Roxi 30s. These guys will do life for sure. I have no problem with drug sales and distribution but lacing shit with fent unbeknownst to the customer should be a death sentence.

I've been wondering this too they seize EVERYTHING, from smart tech people too. I suspect they can easily crack any password and then gag order the person under FISA so if they ever tell anyone they get 20 years