Public record database

# Court cases

Where a takedown in this index produced a prosecution, a forfeiture action, or a seizure warrant, the audit tried to find the docket behind it. The cases it could locate are listed here.

28 court cases Dockets located and checked in the audit

23 links to takedowns Cases connected to a record in this index

40 people named Named in a case, which is not a finding of guilt

A case entry is a court docket the audit was able to locate and check. It is not a summary of proceedings, and a case listed here does not establish that anyone named in it is guilty of anything.

21 of the 28 cases carry a published docket number. The rest give the case name and the court, which is what the cited sources establish.

Showing 1 to 25 of 28 cases

Jurisdiction is recorded as the source dataset states it, so a case handled across borders carries a combined value rather than a single country.

| Case name | Court | Docket number | Jurisdiction | Status | Takedowns | People | Open case record |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Dotcom v Minister of Justice](https://takedownindex.org/cases/dotcom-v-minister-of-justice) | High Court of New Zealand / Court of Appeal of New Zealand | CIV-2024-485-583; [2025] NZHC 2634; [2026] NZCA 284 | NZ | Court of Appeal dismissed appeal on 2026-07-01; possible Supreme Court application remained | 1 | 1 |
| [In re seizure of Samourai Wallet domain/application infrastructure](https://takedownindex.org/cases/in-re-seizure-of-samourai-wallet-domain-application-infrastructure) | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and cooperating foreign authorities | Not published | US/IS/PT | Executed April 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| [In the Matter of the Search of Information Associated with Computers Constituting the Snake Malware Network](https://takedownindex.org/cases/in-the-matter-of-the-search-of-information-associated-with-computers-constitutin) | United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | 23-MJ-0428 (CLP) | US | Warrant executed and unsealed; Operation MEDUSA completed 2023-05-08/09 | 0 | 0 |
| [United States v. $1,546,076.35 in Bank Funds et al.](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-1-546-076-35-in-bank-funds-et-al) | United States District Court for the Central District of California | CV 18-8420-RGK | US | Parallel forfeiture case; DOJ expected forfeiture exceeding USD 200 million for victim remission | 1 | 0 |
| [United States v. Afshin Beheshti et al. (ANOM distributor RICO case)](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-afshin-beheshti-et-al-anom-distributor-rico-case) | United States District Court for the Southern District of California | 3:21-cr-01623-JLS | US | Seventeen defendants indicted; by 2025-02-07 all eight defendants extradited to that date had pleaded guilt... | 0 | 0 |
| [United States v. Alan Bill](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-alan-bill) | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri | Not published | US | Guilty plea 2026-01-27; sentenced 2026-05-07 to 200 months | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Aleksandr Stepanov et al.](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-aleksandr-stepanov-et-al) | United States District Court for the Central District of California | 2:22-cr-00429-JLS | US | Defendants charged; most believed outside U.S. jurisdiction and at large in the latest located official source | 1 | 7 |
| [United States v. Alexander Vinnik and BTC-e](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-alexander-vinnik-and-btc-e) | United States District Court for the Northern District of California | Not published | US | Vinnik pleaded guilty 2024-05-03 and was released/returned to Russia in a February 2025 prisoner exchange b... | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Alexandre Cazes](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-alexandre-cazes) | United States District Court for the Eastern District of California | 1:17-cr-00144-LJO | US | Abated/terminated following Cazes’s death in Thai custody; related forfeiture continued | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Anatoly Legkodymov](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-anatoly-legkodymov) | United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | 23-CR-496 (ENV) | US | Guilty plea entered 2023-12-06; no later official sentencing release located in this audit | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Andrey Ghinkul](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-andrey-ghinkul) | United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania | Not published | US | Extradited February 2016; guilty plea 2017-02-08; sentenced 2018-12-06 to time served | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Artem Aleksandrovich Kalinkin](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-artem-aleksandrovich-kalinkin) | United States District Court for the Central District of California | 2:22-mj-00829-DUTY | US | Charged; fugitive/at large in latest located official source | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Artur Sungatov and Ivan Kondratyev](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-artur-sungatov-and-ivan-kondratyev) | United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | 24-80 | US | Charged; at large | 1 | 2 |
| [United States v. Backpage.com, LLC et al.](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-backpage-com-llc-et-al) | United States District Court for the District of Arizona | CR-18-00465-PHX-DJH | US | Corporate entities pleaded guilty; related forfeiture/remission proceedings continued | 1 | 0 |
| [United States v. Carl Ferrer](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-carl-ferrer) | United States District Court for the District of Arizona | CR-18-00464-PHX-DJH | US | Guilty plea; sentencing/forfeiture coordinated with related Backpage proceedings | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-conor-brian-fitzpatrick) | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | 1:23-cr-00119 | US | Resentenced September 16, 2025 to 36 months imprisonment after Fourth Circuit vacated prior time-served sen... | 0 | 0 |
| [United States v. Diogo Santos Coelho](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-diogo-santos-coelho) | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | 1:21-cr-00114 | US | Extradition proceedings pending in source record; later status not yet verified | 0 | 0 |
| [United States v. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-dmitry-yuryevich-khoroshev) | United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | 24-299 | US | Charged; at large | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Jacob Butler](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-jacob-butler) | United States District Court for the District of Alaska | Not published | US/CA | Charged 2026-04-10; arrested in Canada 2026-05-20; extradition pending at cutoff | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-keonne-rodriguez-and-william-lonergan-hill) | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | 1:24-cr-00082-DLC | US | Both defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced in November 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| [United States v. Kim Dotcom et al.](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-kim-dotcom-et-al) | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | 1:12-cr-00003-LO | US | Pending as to defendants not extradited; Andrus Nomm resolved by guilty plea; New Zealand extradition litig... | 1 | 7 |
| [United States v. Lacey et al.](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-lacey-et-al) | United States District Court for the District of Arizona | CR-18-00422-PHX (BSB) | US | Lacey, Spear and Brunst convicted and sentenced; appeals/restitution continued; Hyer sentenced to time serv... | 1 | 7 |
| [United States v. Mikhail Matveev](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-mikhail-matveev) | United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | 22-825 | US | Charged; at large | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Mikhail Vasiliev](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-mikhail-vasiliev) | United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | 24-468 | US | Guilty plea 2024-07-18; awaiting sentencing in latest located update | 1 | 1 |
| [United States v. Ross William Ulbricht](https://takedownindex.org/cases/united-states-v-ross-william-ulbricht) | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | 1:14-cr-00068 | US | Pardoned; conviction and sentence were final before pardon | 0 | 0 |

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Case status was checked against the public record to August 21, 2026. Proceedings may have moved since.