Charges Against Michigan LocalBitcoin Trader Dropped by spiry-btc

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Yesterday, the charges against a Michigan bitcoin trader known as SaltAndPepper (S&amp;P) were dropped due to the government's inability to sufficiently build a case.

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In a nutshell, we came to the conclusion that according to Michigan state law and regulations in the Act that governs this type of activity, S&amp;P would not meet the criteria for being defined as a "money transmitter service" and this, the federal government had nothing to stand on.

As it turns out, S&amp;P won't even have to defend himself at all.

<strong> Due to the government's lack of evidence and apparent additional parties in question, they were unable to build a case within the allotted 30 day time period as prescribed by the Speedy Trial Act (18 U.S.C. ยงยง 3161(b), 3161(h)).</strong>

His attorney moved for a dismissal based on these grounds of which was granted.

<h3><center>No Money Transmission</center></h3>

As we stated last year, it didn't appear that under the laws within S&amp;P's jurisdiction, that he had done any form of money transmission. At worst, he violated federal law if he weren't registered with FinCEN or the CFTC, however, that was not the charge against him.

He was specifically charged with transmitting money and the reasons were given were once again the HSI setting him up and some apparent other parties one of which so-called "deals" was debunked by the governments own evidence listed in court documents.

They state that S&amp;P brokered a large cash deal and stated this as one of the points of concern and evidence supporting the charges, however, in their own statements they state that S&amp;P himself said that he received absolutely no fee for the arrangement and merely pointed them in the direction of another individual to help.

Not only is that not money transmission, but it's also not even a crime of any kind at all and rather ridiculous that anything at all was even mentioned regarding that transaction.

<strong>The government couldn't build a case because the had nothing to build a case on.</strong> This was the correct outcome for this case and it can certainly be argued that there never should have been a case, to begin with.

<h3>It poses the question about the charges themselves having any warrant at all. Should they have ever existed in the first place?</h3>

Obviously since there was no case built, there are things we simply are not aware of regarding the evidence that may or may not have been available, but clearly if a case cannot be put together within a reasonable amount of time then there's no reason the damn thing should have been there, to begin with.

It sure appears as if S&amp;P was unfairly indicted for selling bitcoin for no other reason than the HSI tried to set him up and it didn't fly.

You can view the motion <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6182321/united-states-v-stetkiw/#entry-14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and the order <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6182321/united-states-v-stetkiw/#entry-15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog with <a href='https://wordpress.org/plugins/steempress/'>SteemPress</a> : https://247cryptonews.com/charges-against-michigan-localbitcoin-trader-dropped/ </em><hr/></center>
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