Court case
United States v. Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Docket 1:24-cr-00082-DLC.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- 1:24-cr-00082-DLC
- Linked takedowns
- 1
- People named
- 2
Case record
- Court
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- 1:24-cr-00082-DLC
- Status
- Both defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced in November 2025
- Status verified
- August 21, 2026
- Dataset id
- case_us_v_samourai
The status line was checked against the public record on August 21, 2026. Proceedings may have moved since.
What this case entry is.
This entry records a court docket the audit located and checked: the case name, the court, the docket number where one is published, and the status the cited sources establish. It is not a summary of proceedings and it does not stand in for the docket itself.
A case listed here does not establish that anyone named on this page is guilty. Charges are accusations only. Where a cited source records a conviction or a guilty plea, that outcome is attributed to the source and this index asserts nothing beyond it.
Sources for this entry were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 21, 2026.
Takedowns linked to this case
1 takedown record in this index is linked to this case.
- Samourai Wallet seizure . Cryptocurrency laundering, April 2024
People named in this case
2 people in this index are recorded as named in this case.
- Keonne Rodriguez . No alias recorded
- William Lonergan Hill . No alias recorded
Sources
3 sources support this entry. Each one is listed with the role it was relied on for.
- Founders of Samourai Wallet Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Plead Guilty , Primary source . United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, August 6, 2025 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-plead-guilty
- Founders of Samourai Wallet Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Sentenced to Five and Four Years in Prison , Primary source . United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, November 19, 2025 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-sentenced-five-and-four-years
- Samourai Wallet founders arrested; infrastructure seized , Primary source . US DOJ / USAO SDNY / IRS-CI / FBI, April 24, 2024 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering