| Tornado
Cash Roman
Storm Free on
$2M Bond
Charged With
Helping NoKo
Hackers
Lazarus
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 6 – 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:
All rise!
Appearances: AUSA
Rehn [also on #SBF case]
For Mr Storm,
Brian Klein [who repped Virgil
Griffith who got 63 months]
Judge
Failla: Defendant was
presented in Washington, but
not yet arraigned. Have you
seen the indictment?
Klein: Yes.
Judge: How do you
plead?
Storm: Not
guilty.
AUSA: Defendant
with Tornado Cash helped North
Korea's hackers Lazarus
Group...There will be
discovery from GitHub
Judge: Will you
image thr devices?
AUSA: Some are
encrypted. We have material
from Dutch authorities, in
Russian, from CC-1. Multiple
terabytes. Judge:
What about the co-defendant?
AUSA: He's a fugitive
overseas. Judge: Victims?
AUSA: Yes, of the hacks
AUSA: There are
some classified materials...
Judge: So ex parte CIPA
conference? AUSA: Within 30
days. Storm's Klein: We think
the US got it wrong. We'll
talk about motions later.
Judge: November
30 [at 3:30 pm - Judge Failla
will be presiding over a
trial, ending at
3]
AUSA: We have
agreed on release on $2
million bond, secured by his
residence in Washington
[state], with 1 co-signer by
Sept 15. We seized his Russian
passport... Travel restricted
to the Districts of SDNY,
EDNY, NJ, Western District of
Washington and Central CA
Klein: There may
be a legal defense fund in
this case... so contact with
Marina Evteshina AUSA: No
objection
Address in Auburn
WA is stated; Inner City Press
voluntarily not reporting it.
Adjourned.
The case is US v.
Storm, et al., 23-cr-430
(Failla)
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