Roman Storm’s defense team raised the prospect of a trial on July 21 after an FBI agent did not confirm that the stolen assets of the first accusation in their trial had crossed the tornado money.
Journalist Matthew Russell Lee reported During the trial session of today in real time, stressing that before the jury can retire in the jury hall, the Storm lawyer said they would confer on a move for a trial.
Journalist David Z. Morris then published a video Explaining that the FBI agent responsible for following the funds of the first witness, Katie Lin, could not follow the funds of Tornado Cash.
Fundless funds
Lin told the jurors last week that she had lost her savings to a pole scheme and believed that the product crossed the co-creative cryptographic mixer.
Defense lawyer Brian Patton argued that the linen account could be unacceptable if prosecutors cannot prove that Tornado Cash has managed its pieces.
He supported before the American district judge Katherine Polk Failla who presented a sympathetic testimony without a verifiable link on the chain “prejudice the jury” and suggested that the deficiency could justify a trial.
Prosecutors said that a second tracing expert would be addressed to transfers later in the trial. However, they did not indicate if the witness would appear in person or would subject a written analysis.
Independent research questions government tracing
The dispute occurred after the security leader of Metamask Taylor Monahan published A thread on July 18, in which she shared her examination of flax transactions.
Monahan wrote that the $ 250,000 has been cabled a false trading site called NTU Capital never touched the Tornadians or the Coinbase. Instead, the crook exchanged Bitcoin for Ethereum (ETH) via an instant exchange service, then moved the ETH among the self-controlled portfolios.
She published Dune Analysis requests and federal deposits to be assets that list the addresses, saying that an external enterprise of the “resumption of cryptography” identified the Tornado Cash in 2022 during the linen advisor.
Judge Failla authorized Patton Leave the prosecutors to decide to try the storm on the heads of violation of the sanctions and the money laundering from the designation of Tornado in 2022 of the Treasury as a facilitator of illicit funds.
For the moment, the procedure depends on the question of whether the next expert can verify a tornado cash link that the FBI analyst could not establish.
