No. What Karpeles is confirming is that the USD withdraws are being halted by the US gov. NOT due to problems with Mt.Gox's banking connections, which they have used as an excuse the last 2 months.
That's what he's
claiming. Or that someone is interpreting that he's claiming.
Whether that's
true is something else entirely. When an agency of the U.S. Government clamps down on some fraud or money laundering scheme, it's very obvious. When the SEC shut down "pirate"'s Ponzi scheme, there were press releases, news coverage, and arrests. When Liberty Reserve was shut down for money laundering, there were arrests and news coverage. When Mt. Gox screwed up dealing with CoinLab, there was a $75 million dollar lawsuit.
All we have here are more excuses from a probably-broke company. If you have money, and need to send it somewhere, there are many ways to do it. If you don't have money...