Matt Stankiewicz

Principal @ Stankie Law LLC - Compliance, Sanctions, Investigations, Crypto Legal Advice | Charity @A4C_Athletes | @LinksDAO (⛳️, 🏌️‍♂️) | Headbanger 🤘

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

@ScottKacsmar Great article, thanks for putting this together

[Adam Besvinick @Besvinick]

Fun acknowledgement of the progress and amazing work being done @SpeyBayGC as it cracks the top 100 courses in Scotland (with even more movement to come) https://t.co/tfATB5ohgZ

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

@TGL #stop

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

@BowTiedBroke 👍

[Spey Bay GC @SpeyBayGC]

We’re honored to be named as a finalist for Members Club of the Year!

[CoopGolfs @CoopGolfs]

tillinghast on a wednesday

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

For those still hoping for sanctions relief on Venezuela - don't expect it any time soon.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

.@StateDept and @TheJusticeDept are increasing the reward for the arrest of dictator Nicolás Maduro to $50 million for violating U.S. narcotics laws.

Maduro is the head of the vicious Cartel de Los Soles, a narco-terror organization which has taken over Venezuela. Maduro MUST be brought to justice.

https://t.co/Ro4YiU5YX1

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 JUST IN: SEC and Ripple jointly dismiss appeals, ending their 5-year legal fight.

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

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[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

My quarterly trade compliance update is now available. Key updates to sanctions regulations include:
👉 Revocation of Syrian sanctions
👉 Continued activity in the Middle East
👉 Additional focus on drug cartels and their networks

Additionally, I provide summaries and compliance takeaways for recent enforcement actions, including:
💰 Interactive Brokers LLC.
🎧 Harman International Industries, Inc.
🚛 Key Holding, LLC.
🧪 Unicat Technologies, LLC.
💵 GVA Capital Ltd.

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[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

There are a lot of strong opinions on the 1960 charge on X right now, but don't forget to appreciate the human element here. Roman Storm was not found guilty on the two charges that EACH carried potential 20 year prison sentences. While there is still a fight left ahead of him, he has to be breathing a sigh of relief right now.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨NEW: Just caught @rstormsf outside the courtroom. I asked how he was feeling. In a quiet voice, but with a noticeable smile, he told me:

“It’s a big win. The ‘1960’ charge is bullshit and we’re going to fight it all the way. You know how President Trump said ‘fight, fight, fight’? We’ll do that too.”

He expressed relief at not being remanded to jail and mentioned his 5-year-old daughter as one of the reasons he plans to keep fighting the one charge he was convicted on.

He said he’s heading back to Seattle tomorrow.

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

The US Government put Tornado Cash on the SDN List, restricting all U.S. Persons from accessing it. A court ruled the government did not have the power to do that, so it was removed from the list.

That’s separate from the issues here, though. Has no real bearing on the charges against Roman Storm.

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

This hurts my head.

With all the regulatory uncertainty around the crypto industry, this felt like one of the only things that was clear.

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

He was found guilty on the charge that directly contradicts FinCEN's guidance. Unbelievable.

[The Rage @theragetech]

COUNT 1, MONEY LAUNDERING: NOT UNANIMOUS
COUNT 2, 1960: GUILTY
COUNT 3, SANCTIONS EVASION: NOT GUILTY

[Messari @MessariCrypto]

SEC: Liquid staking activities and tokens are not securities

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

First thing I learned in my legal career is that every lawyer has extremely strong opinions on comma usage. #TeamOxford

[The Oxford Comma @RealOxfordComma]

Use the Oxford comma, folks.

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

Always hard to put much stock in lengthy deliberations, but it’s probably a positive sign for the defense here.

That said, this is a complicated issue since we’re talking about a case of first impression.

[The Rage @theragetech]

BREAKING: No verdict today in US v. Storm. The jury is being sent home and deliberations will continue Monday morning.

[Jake Chervinsky @jchervinsky]

During deliberation, the jury is allowed to ask the judge questions and the judge only sends back a response after talking to prosecution and defense about it.

First jury question is basically "did the government ever have evidence to prove its case?"

Bullish Roman. Hopes up 🤞

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

That’s a fun fact.

[The Rage @theragetech]

🚨Transcript reveals Chainalysis ran Tornado Cash relayer, witness to testify to fees earned, purchase of TORN tokens

[Matt Stankiewicz @Stankages]

Kind of amazing coming from the government’s “expert.” With the cryptocurrency industry, all the true experts are nameless accounts on X with wassie profile pics. Tough job convincing a jury of that though.

[The Rage @theragetech]

🚨JUST IN:

IRS Special Agent George, tasked with tracing the Government's first witness' funds to Tornado Cash, testifies that he does not know what crypto[.]com is, doesn't know the difference between ERC-20 and ETH