Twister Money developer Roman Storm’s trial adopted the regulation and the decide overseeing his case mustn’t contemplate acquitting him of all fees, federal prosecutors mentioned.
In a post-trial submitting dated final Wednesday, attorneys with the Division of Justice’s Southern District of New York workplace pushed again in opposition to Storm’s movement for acquittal, saying they’d proved with adequate proof that he had constructed and managed Twister Money, the crypto mixing service that was as soon as sanctioned by the U.S. as a consequence of its use by North Korean and different actors.
On the finish of September, Storm’s attorneys filed a post-trial movement arguing that District Decide Katherine Polk Failla ought to acquit him of all fees — not simply the conspiracy to function an unlicensed cash transmitter cost he was convicted on, but additionally the 2 deadlocked fees, conspiring to commit cash laundering and conspiring to violate sanctions regulation. In that procedural submitting, the protection argued that the prosecutors didn’t have adequate proof to really assist a conviction on any cost.
In Wednesday’s submitting, prosecutors acknowledged that their proof was certainly adequate to reveal that Storm was a co-founder of Twister Money and had constructed options he knew would support cybercriminals.
“The defendant’s control was neither passive nor incidental: he and his co-conspirators changed the UI approximately 250 times between February 26, 2020 and August 8, 2022, (Tr. 1063-64, 1078-79), controlling the means by which the vast majority of users accessed the Tornado Cash Service, (Tr. 1049, 1182). During the charged time period, at least 96 percent of Tornado Cash users accessed the Tornado Cash service through the UI. (Tr. 1049, 1182),” the submitting mentioned, referencing parts of the transcript from the 4-week trial.
The submitting additionally argued that prosecutors had sufficient proof to assist their conspiracy to commit cash laundering and conspiracy to violate sanctions fees, and the decide mustn’t acquit on both of these.
Storm’s attorneys have till this upcoming Wednesday to file a response.
