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.

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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](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/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](https://takedownindex.org/people/keonne-rodriguez). No alias recorded
- [William Lonergan Hill](https://takedownindex.org/people/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](https://takedownindex.org/sources/united-states-attorney-s-office-southern-district-of-new-york-founders-of-samour), 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](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](https://takedownindex.org/sources/united-states-attorney-s-office-southern-district-of-new-york-founders-of-samo-2), 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](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-sentenced-five-and-four-years)
- [Samourai Wallet founders arrested; infrastructure seized](https://takedownindex.org/sources/us-doj-usao-sdny-irs-ci-fbi-samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-infrastructure-sei), 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](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering)

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