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Sam Curry says a grand jury subpoena ordering him to testify was later canceled
U.S. security researcher is warning of a chilling effect after he was detained on arrival at a U.S. airport, his phone was searched and he was ordered to testify to a grand jury, only to have prosecutors reverse course and drop the investigation later.
On Wednesday, Sam Curry, a security engineer at blockchain technology company Yuga Labs, said in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, that he was taken into secondary inspection by U.S. federal agents on September 15 after returning from a trip to Japan. Curry said agents with the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) unit and the Department of Homeland Security questioned him at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC about a “high-profile phishing campaign,” searched his unlocked phone, and served him with a grand jury subpoena to testify in New York the week after.
According to a photo of the subpoena that Curry posted, the grand jury was investigating wire fraud and money laundering.
But Curry said he later received confirmation that the copy of his device data was deleted and the grand jury subpoena was canceled once prosecutors realized that Curry was investigating the theft of crypto, and not involved in it.
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U.S. security researcher is warning of a chilling effect after he was detained on arrival at a U.S. airport, his phone was searched and he was ordered to testify to a grand jury, only to have prosecutors reverse course and drop the investigation later.
On Wednesday, Sam Curry, a security engineer at blockchain technology company Yuga Labs, said in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, that he was taken into secondary inspection by U.S. federal agents on September 15 after returning from a trip to Japan. Curry said agents with the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) unit and the Department of Homeland Security questioned him at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC about a “high-profile phishing campaign,” searched his unlocked phone, and served him with a grand jury subpoena to testify in New York the week after.
According to a photo of the subpoena that Curry posted, the grand jury was investigating wire fraud and money laundering.
But Curry said he later received confirmation that the copy of his device data was deleted and the grand jury subpoena was canceled once prosecutors realized that Curry was investigating the theft of crypto, and not involved in it.
Security researcher warns of chilling effect after feds search phone at airport | TechCrunch
Sam Curry says a grand jury subpoena ordering him to testify was later canceled following a US border search.
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