Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

The complaint alleges that “the tornado cash service was’ privacy service ‘claimed’ the accused actually knew that it was a shelter for the criminals to smuggle large -scale finances and to seize the ban.”

During the trial, the prosecutors proved that they claimed that the tornado cash was designed to smuggle money from the beginning. Their witnesses include a scandal victim whose stolen funds were believed to have passed the tornado in cash – though this account was Competition online Crypto by prominent members of the industry-and a guilty fraud that used this service for non-profit profits. “Wash, Washi,” fraud Has been assumed To his girlfriend in a message about the tornado cash.

When the government stopped his case last week, prosecutors dismissed the privacy as a convenient confusion. Benjamin was one of the prosecutors, “not in the so -called ‘privacy’ for ordinary people,” Quoted Saying “It was to hide the dirty money for the criminals.”

Storms and other developers even wore tornado cash-branded t-shirts Emblazred with an image of a washing machineProsecutors mentioned.

Storm’s attorneys, already, Have tried to argue Although their client created the technology exploited by bad actors, he himself was not involved in any crime or did not manage any dirty money. “You will never hear any evidence of Roman or that [other] Cofowns who took part in any hacks, ” D Kerry Curtis Axel, law firm Wemecer and Storm’s consultants, partners in his inaugural comments.

Tornado cash, the storm was powerless to prevent defense Has been reported to have arguedBecause he and other developers left the ability to correct or disable the underlying code in the consciousness of decentralization.

The Defense Stand called for several who called several witnesses Tornado speaks with potentially legitimate use for cashThe However, the storm did not testify, which would open him for inter-examination by the prosecution.

In the end, despite being convicted of the storm for a low meaning infection violation, the jury proved to be acceptable in the lines of defense logic.

“Jury divides the proverbial child,” said Mark Bin, a former federal prosecutor of the law firm Reid Smith and former federal prosecutor. “Although they probably gave the mandatory arguments of the defense that the mixers used legitimate privacy and the storm was not directly involved in the tornado cash, they felt uncomfortable about the steps that tornado cash or did not prevent illegal uses.”

The storm is now waiting for the decoration, which is usually a A few months after a view of the iconThe Meanwhile, the DOG must decide that the money laundering counts will retry where the jury cannot agree.

“The government can choose to retry the storm in the hanging count, but on the notes returning from the jury, I hope that they will be punished on the basis of the guilty they have,” Bin said. “Although they are likely to argue in favor of strict punishment, the juror judgment seems to have taken a lot out of the sting from the government case.”

Update 8/06/25 update 3:32 pm Est: This article is updated with a statement of defense expert witness Mathew Green.