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> The Special Prosecutions Section and Asset Forfeiture Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California is handling the seizure

Hah, of course the DoJ office doing bitcoin investigations is in San Francisco.

Also interesting that they were able to recover only $2.3M out of the $4.4M paid. I wonder if Colonial Pipeline will ever see this money.



They recovered 63.7 out of 75 BTC. The USD price just changed in the interim.




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