According to a post by Amanda Tuminelli, Chief Legal Officer of the DeFi Education Foundation, the U.S. Department of Justice has decided to reopen the trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm in the fall.
In the initial trial, the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the money laundering and sanctions violation charges, finding the defendant guilty only of operating an unlicensed money transfer business. Despite clear errors by the prosecution in the initial trial, including subpoenaing irrelevant witnesses, failing to understand the forensic analysis of its own blockchain evidence, and legal and logical flaws in the third-party developer liability allegations, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has decided to retry the first and third charges in the indictment.
