Because this case exists, would you assume they actually didn't steal as much money from people as was first believed?
If you have a class action RICO case against you that can grow to an enormous number of claims as more people join and you don't leave the country, doesn't that mean you're broke. You would need to either be broke or retarded to stay in the USA and face all these cases with a million dollars in reserve. The way Bitcoin is climbing you only need 750 btc locked away to have $1,000,000. And if they are broke you can sue them to death and you ain't gonna get blood from a turnip.
Why are they not sitting in Panama having drinks with Erik Voorhees? I don't get it.
Sonny Vleisides would be if he wasn't still on probation. Rest assured that Sonny has bitcoins and or cash stored away, ready to be touched once his name his cleared with the courts. The bitcoins processed by BitPay stemming from the bitcoin wallet address -
1QAHVyRzkmD4j1pU5W89htZ3c6D6E7iWDs - prior to the FTC briefly taking over the remaining bitcoins DID NOT go to a BFL bank account, but to several in Sonny or his close cohort's name, for Sonny is well versed in structuring bank accounts.
TBC, if you, I, the King of Siam, or Robert Mercer wanted to exchange a dollars worth of bitcoin to fiat via BitPay, we all would be denied, yet Sonny successfully exchanged over ten million dollars of bitcoin to fiat, and I have all the proof, whereupon a myriad crypto-based periodicals published countless articles on said affairs. Oh, wait! My bad! No rags wanted to touch the subject. I got this info mixed up with articles penned about a homeless man finding a laptop loaded with bitcoins or of a multi-million-dollar home in California sold via bitcoin or of some other mundane articles perhaps based on fiction as fodder for them rags.
Ok, if Sonny has an ankle bracelet tracker on that might keep him from boarding a charter in Florida to Panama but what about the rest of them? Besides, he isn't on probation anymore. It was scheduled to naturally end in 2013:
https://www.scribd.com/mobile/document/217271973/MOTION-FOR-EARLY-TERMINATION-OF-SUPERVISED-RELEASE-2012So, you've proven that the chowderhead gang has tons of money squirreled away and is still living in the jurisdiction where they can be: attacked by the court, attacked by individuals whom they've wronged (both legal and physical attack), imprisioned, and driven into abject poverty by seizures.
The only explanation I can come up with is mental retardation. That means they are, at least, as retarded as the 20,000 customers who sent thousands of dollars to someone on probation without doing even casual research. BTW: it took me exactly two fucking seconds to find the above document.