Originally Posted by
a500lbgorilla
And also, I'm not sure if Ender and CBAT were insinuating anything with strange timings, but it's more plausible that the feds simply moved on the case once they could move on the case. It requires less coordination with shadowy puppetmasters.
As I understand it they caught the guy with full knowledge of the payment processors and threatened him with 75 years, so he offered them billion dollar money launders in exchange for his own skin. Once the feds were given such a case on a silver platter, it was probably on all go.