Crypto Long & Short: What the DOJ’s Massive Crypto Seizures Mean for the Industry

But investigators are often working with incomplete information and under time pressure, and this can result in mistakes about whether particular transactions reflect money laundering or perfectly legal activity. That is unfortunate, because while potential paths exist to remedy an improper crypto seizure , the recovery process can be expensive, time-consuming and stressful.First, the DOJ’s heightened focus on crypto seizures increases the odds that innocent users will see their coins wrongly caught in the ...