Thank you for your understanding of law. These idiots on here seem to have a vested interest in people thinking their  money is gone forever. Seems fishy to me that they are trying to convince victims that they are shit outa luck. The fact is,  people on the exchange that had their accounts locked were legal bitcoin users. They weren't following their illegal trend so they were locked out and scammed. I bought my LTC at an expo in NYC over the course of two days, two years ago before the MT.gox crash. I waited patiently for the market to go back up and when it did they locked me out. People like me def have a leg to stand on when demanding compensation form the government whose imposing fines. Not only can I prove where my $25k came from, I am prove when I bought the coins, and when I transferred them to BTC-e. If your a money launderer and you had stolen BTC, then yeah our really don't have a leg to stand on and should probably just throw in the towel.