| After
Tornado Cash
Trial Roman
Storm 59 page
Motion for
Acquittal
Pends Next Now
April 22
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 12 – Roman Storm was
charged using his
cryptocurrency mixer 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
WAS here
On
October 24 as
Inner City
Press live
tweeted US
v.
Peraire-Bueno,
Amazon without
notice took
down the
Tornado Cash,
SBF and other
books:
censorship.
The
prosecutors
spoke about
Dragonfly
- then asked
to seal it.
Inner City
Press moved to
unseal, and
Judge Failla
asked them
and the defense to
respond by August 19.
On August 5 the
jurors returned with this: no
unanimity on Counts 1 and 3,
guilty on Count 2, conspiracy
to operate an unlicensed money
transmittal business. The AUSA
then asked that Storm be
remanded to jail as a flight
right. Thread.
Judge Failla denied that.
On August 19
Storm through counsel wrote in
saying he does not oppose
Inner City Press' motion to
unseal... on August 21,
Shakeeb Ahmed who was
transported from jail in West
Virginia to testify against
Storm had his sentence ended
as "time served"...
Early on October
1 Storm's lawyers filed a
motion for acquittal, notice
of motion on Patreon here.
Troublingly, the
US Attorney's Office has still
not docketed any response to
Judge Failla's order they
responded to Inner City Press'
motion to unseal the
transcript on Dragonfly, more
than 40 days after the
deadline.
On November 12
the US filed a 105 page
opposition to Storm's motion
for acquittal, photo of table
of contents / argument here.
On December 12,
the day after Do Kwon was
sentenced to 15 years, Storm's
lawyers filed a 59 page reply,
at the end citing the First
Amendment.
On January 5,
2026, Judge Failla ordered:
"the Court hereby ADJOURNS the
conference previously
scheduled for January 22,
2026, to April 9, 2026, at
10:00 a.m. The ends of
justice would be served by
excluding time under the
Speedy Trial Act from January
22, 2026, until April 9, 2026,
and that this would outweigh
the interests of the public
and the defendant in a speedy
retrial, because it will give
the parties and the Court
additional time to consider
Mr. Storm's post-trial
motions. (Signed by
Judge Katherine Polk Failla on
1/5/26)."
Note: One of
Storm's lawyer has now gone to
the Cooley firm.
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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