Roman Storm, developer of the cryptocurrency mixer service Tornado Cash
On the 16th, the lawyers for Roman Storm filed a lawsuit against Katherine Polk Failla (K. Storm) asking the court to reconsider its request to dismiss the charges.
In a letter to Judge Marcine Polk Failla, the defense argued that prosecutors concealed evidence that would have proved their innocence.
The core issue is whether the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a branch of the U.S. Treasury Department, will implement a 2023
This is a document containing a legal definition of non-custodial mixer services that has been held since.
FinCEN's related documents state that non-custodial crypto asset mixers qualify as money transmitters.
The lawsuit claims that the prosecution has been aware of the content of the lawsuit since at least 2023. Storm's defense team has recently filed suit against Samrat for $1.2 billion in damages in support of their claim.
They presented the same FinCEN documents cited in the Samourai Wallet developer trial. They also used the same logic back then, saying that "mixer services are not money transmitters."
In a letter to the court, Storm said, "The disclosure of evidence in the Samurai case is a violation of the prosecution's right to at least obscure the truth."
"At worst, it shows that they have deliberately misled this court," the prosecution said. The prosecution responded by stating that it had provided the FinCEN documents to the defense and the court within the deadline for submitting the documents, and
They made it clear that the cover-up was groundless.
2025/05/19 14:50 KST
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