Friday, July 25, 2025

In Roman Storm Trial Defense Says Fund of 1st Witness Lin Never Went in Tornado Cash


by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 21 – Roman Storm is charged using his cryptocurrency mixed Tornado Cash to help launder money for North Korea's hackers in the Lazarus Group.

On September 6, 2023 he was arraigned before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Katherine Polk Failla. Inner City Press was there - thread

The US on July 9, 2025 filed opposition - just as in the Samouri Wallet case a letter from Senator Lummis and Wyden that cites theTornado Cash case, letter now on Patreon, with Samouri story, here.

On July 11 Inner City Press live tweeted a conference in which the US said Witness-1 only began speaking to them on July 3 and is seeking sentence reduction under Rule 35. Judge Failla will let Witness-1 testifying, but expressed doubts on venue. Thread.

On July 14 Inner City Press live tweeted jury selection.

Crypto Tornado book 1 here

On July 21 after Infura's E.G. Galano, Storm's counsel said the funds of the first witness Ms. Lin never went in Tornado Cash, and a motion for mistrial was being mulled. Thread. The AUSA say they have another IRS witness for that. Then a pre-charge conference -

More on X for Subscribers here and Substack here

The case is USA v. Storm, et al., 1:23-cr-430 (Failla)

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