Do include the next part aswell:
"Griffith was denied permission to travel to North Korea by the State Department but decided to attend the DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference anyway."
"Griffith was denied permission to travel to North Korea by the State Department but decided to attend the DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference anyway."
Interesting. Now do everyone in the last thirty years who helped create the situation where North Korea has nuclear weapons. Starting with Jimmy Carter.
If you sold weapons to terrorists you'd be facing similar charges.
It may have just been a talk, but a talk is a service, and he knew it was a serious federal crime.
If he planned to rely on the "It was all public information anyway" argument, he is a fool.