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Tornado Cash Roman Storm Motions Denied So Trial Set for Dec 2 in SDNY

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 26 – 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:

Cash helped North Korea's hackers Lazarus Group...There will be discovery from GitHub 

On December 5, Judge Failla docketed the trial schedule: "SCHEDULING ORDER as to Roman Storm, Roman Semenov. It is hereby ORDERED that the following trial schedule will be in effect: Trial will be set to begin on September 23, 2024, at 9:00 a.m." Full scheduling order on Patreon here

On March 29, 2024, Storm through counsel submitted motions to suppress and to compel discovery, including into MLATs with The Netherlands, and FinCEN and OFAC communications. Memo/motion on Patreon here

On July 5, a court holiday, Storm's lawyer filed an opposed request for a delay into 2025 of the trial: "We write on behalf of our client Roman Storm to respectfully request that the Court grant a continuance of the trial date from September 23, 2024 to late January or February 2025." Letter on Patreon here.

The US on July 9 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 12, Judge Failla did delay the trial, but not as far as Storm requested: "trial in this matter is scheduled to begin on 12/2/2024 at 9:00 a.m."

On September 26, Judge Failla denied Storm's motions, from the thread:

SDNY Judge Failla is about to start reading out (long) decision on motions to compel and dismiss. Spoiler alert: she is denying both. Judge: The pre-trial discovery is government by Rule 16...

Brady did not create a Constitutional right to discovery. Mr. Storm's request are too speculative, saying "may," "may" and "may." He does not connect the dots.

Judge Failla continues: I reject the void for vagueness argument... Courts should be cautious when assessing vagueness arguments. Consider US v. Howtar (sp)

 Judge Failla: Mr. Storm was arguing that that statutory definition of financial transaction is vague. I reject that. The court finds that the statute gave Mr. Storm adequate notice. He marketed Tornado Cash as a way to conceal, he had notice is was illegal

Judge Failla: So, the motions are denied. I think that is all I need to do today. We have a trial date

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

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