We got access to private communications with the recovery firm that tied Roman Storm to the Government’s first witness, pig-butchering scam victim “Katie” Lin. And oh, boy. Victims paid the service, called Payback, over $90,000 in fees for “fraudulent tracing reports.” The firm tried to market itself as having been involved in Binance’s $4.3B AML settlement, and allegedly sold a victim’s email address to what appears to be another scam, asking the recipient to withdraw funds from exchanges and invest them in Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. The entire first page of Google results is littered with financial authorities around the world warning of a Payback recovery scam. The FBI is still seeking victim statements. How *on earth* did anything related to this ever make it into SDNY’s evidence.