
So, as you said, I’m now a judge, so I’m no longer a prosecutor, so I can speak not in my role as a judge but talking about as a prosecutor starting in 2008 until September 11, 2020, I was prosecuting cases. Zia and his team, that he had developed, and then I got to jump in and help develop, as well, had created this amazing world that’s leading the forefront of DOJ in these kinds of cases. During my time prosecuting sex offense cases, I learned an expertise in the revenge porn world, which is where individuals sort of use cyber techniques to put out explicit photos of people that either broke up with them or upset them in some way, and I got really interested in the cyber world, and then when I moved to the National Security Section, I was lucky enough to team up with Zia, who had already developed this amazing expertise in this field, and from there, it sort of took off. I started and cut my teeth in the Superior Court Division at our office prosecuting mainly domestic violence and sex offense cases. I can go first, and then I’ll let Zia sort of explain because I think our roots are actually very different.
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You’ve prosecuted a number of federal criminal and civil forfeiture cases involving cryptocurrency including some of the most well-known ones such as the Welcome to Video case, which led to the takedown of one of the web’s largest child pornography sites, and a case involving the North Korea affiliated Lazarus group, plus another one involving Hamas and the Al Qassam Brigades, how did you two come to prosecute so many cases involving cryptocurrency? attorney in the National Security Section at the United States Attorney’s Office.

Today’s guests are Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui and Jessi Brooks, assistant U.S.

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I started covering crypto five years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes, was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full-time. I’m your host, Laura Shin, a journalist with over two decades of experience. Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things crypto. Jonathan Levin from Chainalysis on Unchained: Transcript:

the process of seizing funds from unhosted wallets.the case involving ISIS and counterfeit PPE for COVID.how Al Qaeda used Telegram to pursue cryptocurrency donations.the Al-Qassam Brigades case, which led to the largest ever seizure of a terrorist organization’s cryptocurrency accounts, and the terrorist organization’s use of dynamic addresses in an attempt to elude detection by authorities.how they came to be involved in the prosecution of so many cases involving cryptocurrency.attorney in the national security section at the United States Attorney’s Office, have prosecuted several cryptocurrency-related cases, many of them amongst the most well-known. Magistrate judge Zia Faruqui, and Jessi Brooks, assistant U.S.
