🚨UPDATE: Chainalysis witness may plead the 5th to avoid self-incrimination following a phone call with the Government. This is after SDNY openly threatened defense witness Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly Capital, allegedly to stop him from testifying. image
It’s a new (and likely the final) week in the trial against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm. Here’s what to expect as the defense makes its case 👇
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What To Expect This Week In Tornado Cash
New exhibits suggest that the prosecution may have misrepresented Storm's state of mind. Two witnesses from the blockchain surveillance firm Chaina...
🚨JUST IN: IRS Special Agent George, tasked with tracing the Government's first witness' funds to Tornado Cash, testifies that he does not know what crypto[.]com is, doesn't know the difference between ERC-20 and ETH
No Mistrial For Storm: IRS Investigator Saves Dicey Witness, But IRS Agent Stephan George's Methods and Precision are under Serious Question. Full story 👇
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No Mistrial For Storm: IRS Investigator Saves Dicey Witness
But IRS Agent Stephan George's methods and precision are under serious question.
UPDATE in US v. STORM: IRS blockchain tracer Stephan George today testified that he traced 9.7 ETH derived from the defrauding of Hanfeng Lin to Tornado Cash using Chainalysis and TRM Labs tools. Also, prosecutors indulge in some light heckling of David Z Morris 👇
💥 EXCLUSIVE: Did SDNY Enter A Recovery Scam's Documents Into Evidence against Roman Storm? We obtained exclusive access to documents from a company called "Payback" that tied the Government's first victim to Tornado Cash – and it doesn't look good. Full story 👇
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Did SDNY Enter A Recovery Scam's Documents Into Evidence?
We obtained exclusive access to documents from a company called "Payback" that tied the Government's first victim to Tornado Cash – and it doesn'...
🚨JUST IN: Notice of appearance for Chainalysis counsel in US v. Storm image
Today in the prosecution of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, Storm’s defense team raised the possibility of a mistrial if no foundation could be found for the testimony of the prosecution’s first witness, Hanfeng "Katie" Lin. The victim of a pig butchering scam, Lin engaged a recovery service that directed her to contact Tornado Cash about lost funds. But an FBI forensic tracer who has testified for nearly a full day was not instructed by prosecutors to trace Lin’s money, and experts have raised questions about whether any of it actually went to Tornado Cash. If it did not, Lin’s testimony would have to be stricken and, according to defense attorney David Patton, the entire trial might have to be restarted from scratch. Full story👇
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Possible Tornado Cash Mistrial Floated by Roman Storm Defense Over Scam Victim Witness
How Exactly did Prosecutors Trace Scam Proceeds to Tornado Cash?
Update from U.S. v. Storm 👇 Roman Storm's defense team has raised the spectre of a mistrial after an FBI tracing expert failed to confirm that the prosecution's first witness' stolen funds had in fact been sent to Tornado Cash.
We're about to start the second full day of proceedings in US v. Storm. Trial observers care passionately about the outcome. Meet Tim Clancy (@_Enoch), who brought a printed copy of the PGP code to court - the document that established free speech protections for code.