What's the fate of any money recovered? I don't recall any structure, group or process regarding this. Not sure I've ever read any summary about aggrieved customers or whether they've attempted to unite. I kind of got the impression everyone knew they were going to get raped when wex resurfaced.
I presume it's being treated as another Silk Road and all the money is automatically condemned as evil and kept to spend on training people to choke the innocent to death in a sneakier manner.
This is quite different than cases like the Mt. Gox liquidation. I don't believe there's much chance of recovery for customers. Regulators have asserted over and over that BTC-e was essentially a money laundering operation, implying its money was tainted. FinCEN also fined them for $110 Million, so the bulk of the money is already spoken for. I wonder if other regulators might follow suit after the Vinnik case is decided too.
On top of all that, I have to wonder how many legitimate customers ever completed KYC -- it was not required -- and would also want to involve themselves in a Department of Justice victim claim.