Before the lawyers for La Défense de Roman Storm were based on their case on Tuesday, a question that seemed to cause controversy in the courtroom was a t-shirt that the co-founder and developer of Tornado Cash wore during a cryptographic event in 2019.
During the declarations of opening before the American district court of the South District of New York, the prosecutors and lawyers of Storm would have mentioned a t-shirt in tornado species that the developer wore, which claimed to “wash” the ether (ETH) through the mixing service.
A video published by a participant in Ethboston 2019 seemed to show Storm with the shirt, which indicated “I keep my ether clean with Tornado.cash”, showing a washing machine that resulted in a “clean” eth.
“The accused took advantage of a giant washing machine for dirty money,” said assistant prosecutor of the United States Kevin Mosley in court on July 15, according to the inert city press report. “He wore a t-shirt for this purpose. Mr. Storm had choices. Once he learned that he was washing money for criminals, he still chose to commit crimes. He continued. “
Storm’s legal team, which made its opening declaration after the prosecutors, said that the shirt was “a meme, a joke in bad taste”. They mentioned the tornado species goods on Monday on Monday while competing for a motion aimed at excluding information on pirates using the mixing service.
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Whether the jurors or judge Katherine Failla consider the shirt as a “joke” or an indication that Storm and other tornado cash developers have claimed to exploit a cryptographic “laundering” service to see at the time of the publication. He faces accusations of money laundering, conspiracy to exploit a silver issuer without license and the conspiracy to violate American sanctions.
Storm will not testify in his own defense
After starting the jury selection on July 14, the STORM criminal trial is expected to last about three weeks. On Friday, prosecutors concluded their case after hearing witnesses, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service and people involved in hacking incidents.
“The way the prosecutors have painted an image guilty of Roman Storm and the Tornado Cash team is fallacious,” a spokesman for the Golem Foundation, who contributed 50 ETH to the Storm Defense Fund, told 50 ETH. “This affair really amounts to blaming the developers of banking applications for financial scams that occur on the internet. It’s stupid.”
On Tuesday, Tornado Cash’s co-founder would not testify. In an interview before the trial, he said he was not sure that he would take the position. His defense team rested on Tuesday after more than three days to hear witnesses and will probably start to close the statements on Wednesday.
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