[Lnc-business] Fwd: Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee re: S1241.

[James Lark]

Dear colleagues:

     I hope all is well with you.  Yesterday I received the message 
below.  Since the message was addressed to me at my @lp.org address, I 
suspect Mr. Chino contacted me in the hope that I would inform the LNC 
about S. 1241.

     Information about S. 1241 is available at 
www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1241/text.  Since I am 
traveling at this moment, I have not had time to read the proposed 
legislation.  However, given the title attached to the proposed 
legislation (the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and 
Counterfeiting Act of 2017"), I strongly suspect the legislation is 
likely to criminalize actions that should not be criminal, and/or will 
cause many needless problems for people seeking to engage in voluntary 
transactions.

     As always, thanks for your work for liberty.

     Take care,
     Jim

     James W. Lark, III
     Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering
     Applied Mathematics Program, Dept. of Engineering and Society
     Affiliated Faculty, Dept. of Statistics
     University of Virginia

     Advisor, The Liberty Coalition
     University of Virginia

     Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee re: S1241.
Date: 	Sat, 17 Jun 2017 13:49:54 -0400
From: 	Theo Chino <theo.chino at gmail.com>
To: 	Jim <james.lark at lp.org>
CC: 	Pierre Ciric <pciric at ciriclawfirm.com>


Dear Jim,

My name is Theo Chino and I am a Bitcoiner suing the State of New York 
over the Bitlicense in the municipal court that overseas the New York 
Departement of Financial Services.

I am writing you because Senator Grassley has reintroduced a bill that 
was originaly writen in 2011 in effect criminalizing Bitcoin exchanges.

I am CC my lawyer in this email because he is preparing a letter to the 
Senate Judiciary Committee to kill S1241 like it happened in 2011. He 
can explain the dichotomy of the two arguments. DOJ has arrested 5 
people and the same Senate Judiciary is in charge of DOJ.

*Theo Chino*
/https://article78againstNYDFS.com/advocacy.php/

From: Pierre Ciric
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 4:41:10 PM
To: Theo Chino
Cc: Jason Brett; Jeremy Kauffman
Subject: Re: S1451 / EFF

    Following Theo's request, we are preparing a letter to the attention
    of Nathan J Hallford, Senior Counsel at the Senate Judiciary
    Committee, focusing on two separate issues:

    - the letter seeks to have the committee withdraw the bill S1241
    (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s1241), based on the
    legal position adopted by Theo before New York courts that Bitcoin
    lacks the characteristics of a financial product.
    - the letter seeks to alert the Judiciary Committee, which has
    oversight authority over the DOJ, about the recent prosecutions of
    Bitcoiners under the federal money transmitter statute, especially
    when no other criminal charge is being sought. The letter will argue
    that those prosecutions may be baseless based on the legal position
    adopted by Theo before New York courts that Bitcoin lacks the
    characteristics of a financial product.

    Once the letter is ready, we will send you a draft. We are seeking
    your concurrence so that we can indicate in the letter that your
    foundation supports this position. We are however not claiming that
    we represent you, only that you share Theo's position.

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