Comment by comex

For one of charges in the indictment, "Operation of an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business" (18 USC § 1960), they allege that BTC-e satisfied two conditions, either of which alone would have been sufficient to prove the charge. One of the conditions is knowingly transmitting funds derived from a criminal offense, but the other one is just "fail[ing] to comply with the money transmitting business registration requirements set forth in [31 USC § 5330]". So I'd say the BTC-e stuff is indeed part of "what he's charged with", albeit not the main focus.