In 2023, Scanlon (right) was taken into custody and accused of operating a “unlicensed money transmitting business.”

To put it briefly, Scanlon laundered money for con artists via his businesses, PMA Media Group, Aurae Lifestyle, Nvayo Limited, Club Swan, and AU Card LLC.

We saw that Scanlon was freed in August 2023 on a $5 million secured release bond after his arrest. However, there haven’t been any updates since, which is strange considering that a year and a half has passed.

I checked to see if there were any external Scanlon updates I may have missed after seeing that Nvayo Limited was going into “special administration” in the UK.

Comparing the second DOJ news release I found on Scanlon to the first one from 2023, it seems that Scanlon was apprehended while attempting to leave the country.

Scallon was taken into custody at Miami International Airport today, and according to the 2023 news statement, he is scheduled to make his first appearance in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday.

Additionally, on October 11, 2024, Scallon had his first appearance in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida after being apprehended at Miami International Airport on October 10, 2024.

He entered a not guilty plea when he was arraigned in federal court in Newark today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lede Dunn Wettre.

I’m not sure of the specifics of the arrest, but I assume Scanlon was traveling domestically before the second arrest since he had loosened his travel limitations.

Scanlon’s indictment, which was filed on October 11, 2024, is connected to his second arrest. As a result, a new case number was generated, which oddly starts in April 2023.

In other words, the initial case docket I was following seems to have been abandoned, while this second case docket has been updated consistently.

We haven’t missed much, which is wonderful news. The majority of the docket records are to loosened release conditions until his October 2024 indictment filing.

Things get a little tense after Scanlon’s indictment. While the DOJ has asked for complicated case designation—basically holding down processes because of case complexity—Scanlon has sought to dismiss the indictment.

The DOJ’s complicated case motion, submitted on October 25, 2024, has not yet been decided.

What has been going on behind the scenes since 2023 is revealed in the DOJ’s answer to Scanlon’s March 24th petition to have his indictment dismissed.

At his request, Scanlon’s bail terms have been changed around seven times since June 5, 2023, to include travel and other less stringent requirements.

With the approval of the Government, this Court most recently changed Scanlon’s bail requirements on December 27, 2024, by: (1) eliminating GPS monitoring; (2) permitting Scanlon to communicate with domestic and foreign business entities in which he has an interest and for the purpose of terminating that interest; and (3) eliminating the need for approval to launch a business other than one in banking or the money transmitting sector.

The parties attempted to settle the dispute for almost three years, and they mutually decided to enter into the Speedy Trial Clock for a period of fifteen months.

The Government and Scanlon’s counsel, both current and former, met and conferred on multiple occasions during the investigation, starting in 2020, both before and after Scanlon was charged by complaint, and until roughly mid-September 2024. At Scanlon’s request, they also engaged in serious plea negotiations.

Plea negotiations were terminated by Scanlon’s new counsel in September 2024, and they declined to agree to any more refinements.

Since then, Scanlon has received “more than 25,000 pages of discovery” from the DOJ.

In summary, Scanlon contends that his charge ought to be dropped because, in accordance with the Speedy Trial Act, 70 days have elapsed since the indictment was filed without a trial.

Among other reasons, the DOJ contends that a number of circumstances have prevented seventy days from passing.

Due to the exclusion of periods of delay in this subject from the seventy-day computation, the clock has not run.

For instance, Scanlon’s then-new counsel abandoned the DOJ for “more than a month” due to wording in a proposed protective order (which had to do with discovery).

That’s where we are now. Scanlon’s move to have his indictment dismissed and the DOJ’s complicated case motion are both awaiting decisions.