US prosecutors in the criminal trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm are expected to conclude their arguments on Thursday, following testimony from an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent linking Storm to transactions on major crypto exchanges. On Wednesday, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent Stephan George took the stand, testifying ...
Lawyers representing Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, are considering filing for a mistrial after a key government witness failed to directly connect her stolen funds to the crypto mixing service. During a hearing on Monday before U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla, Storm’s legal team raised concerns over testimony ...
The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm is leaning towards barring any mention of the 2022 US sanctions against the crypto mixing platform in court. During a hearing on Tuesday, Judge Katherine Failla of the Southern District of New York said she was “inclined” ...
With his criminal trial fast approaching, Roman Storm, co-founder of the crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, has come forward to deny any wrongdoing, insisting that he is being prosecuted simply for writing open-source code. Speaking in a recent interview with Crypto in America, Storm argued that the U.S. government’s case ...
