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 ...
The attacker behind the $12 million exploit of Cork Protocol in May has resurfaced, sparking fresh concerns over fund recovery efforts as they launder millions through Tornado Cash and make a surprising public donation. On Wednesday, June 25, blockchain security firm PeckShield Alert flagged renewed activity from wallet addresses linked ...
Federal prosecutors have decided to drop a portion of their criminal case against Roman Storm, co-founder of crypto mixer Tornado Cash, following a major policy shift from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on crypto enforcement. However, the bulk of the charges—including serious allegations of money laundering and sanctions violations—remain ...
After more than five months of inactivity, the hacker behind the 2022 Voltage Finance exploit has resurfaced—this time, moving a portion of the stolen Ether through Tornado Cash, a privacy-focused mixer. On May 6, blockchain security firm CertiK flagged the movement of 100 Ether, worth approximately $182,783 at the time, ...
The hacker responsible for the $9.6 million exploit of zkLend claims to have lost a significant amount of the stolen funds to a phishing scam that mimicked Tornado Cash. On March 31, they revealed via Etherscan that they mistakenly transferred 2,930 Ether (ETH) to a fraudulent Tornado Cash site, thinking ...
A coalition of 34 crypto firms and advocacy groups has called on Congress to push back against the Department of Justice's broad interpretation of laws used to prosecute Tornado Cash developers. In a letter dated March 26, they warned that the DOJ's stance regarding unlicensed money transmission could criminalize many ...
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has contributed $1.25 million to assist Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev in his legal battle as he prepares to appeal his money laundering conviction in the Netherlands. Announcing the donation on February 26 via X, the Foundation emphasized the importance of privacy and defended the right ...
Alexey Pertsev, a developer for the controversial cryptocurrency mixing platform Tornado Cash, is set to be released from prison on February 7. In a post on X, Pertsev announced his release, noting that a Dutch court had recently cancelled his pretrial detention. This decision allows him to complete the rest ...
