In a powerful interview, Lauren Rodriguez recounts the pre-dawn FBI raid on her family home in April 2024, where dozens of heavily armed agents, an armored MRAP vehicle, drones, and laser-sighted rifles surrounded the house of her husband Keonne Rodriguez — the non-violent CEO of the open-source, non-custodial Bitcoin privacy wallet Samourai. Facing charges of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter and money laundering despite no prior criminal record, Keonne ultimately took a plea while his co-founder was raided simultaneously in Portugal; the conversation highlights allegations of withheld Brady evidence, FinCEN involvement, selective enforcement against privacy tools, and broader questions about financial surveillance, two-tiered justice, and the criminalization of code designed to give everyday users the same privacy banks and elites enjoy.
