New York, New York – The Judge, who oversees the criminal case against Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm, said Tuesday that she will not allow the verdict in another, related case, van Loon against the Department of the Treasury, to be discussed during Storm’s upcoming trial.
“The words ‘van Loon’ won’t show up in this trial,” said district judge Katherine Polk Failla during a Tuesday hearing in Manhattan.
The Hearing-a Final, Personal Status Conference Before Storm’s trial begins on June 14th-Stort Set focused on movements in Limine (A type of prior movement to exclude certain evidence or arguments, in this case, largely witnessed testimony, from being allowed during trial) from both prosecutors and Storm’s defense team. After hearing discussion from both sides, Failla decided to rule about some of the decisions in Limine on Tuesday afternoon as well as during telephone conferences later this week.
Although the judge has not yet found out as witnesses are allowed to testify during Storm’s trial, she was firmly in her decision to exclude testimony of the Van Loon case relating to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control’s (Ofac) Ability to sanction Tornado cash. After many years back and forth, Ofac Tornado Cash delisted in March. A federal judge in Texas then found that ofac’s sanctioning of Tornado Cash was illegal and forbidden to revisit privacy in the future.
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Failla said that her mind was not yet composed of whether both sides should discuss Ofac’s sanctions against Tornado cash, which expressed concern that it would confuse the jury.
Storm’s attorneys told the court that they prefer the sanctions to be excluded from witness relationships and final arguments during the trial, but prosecutors said it would be difficult to navigate important evidence, such as Storm’s alleged behavior (Including certain Google searches, sale of $ 12 million worth of cracked tokens and derogation of control over Tornado cash to a decentralized device) After the AFAC initially sanctioned Tornado cash without discussion the sanctions themselves.
Although Failla was not made in a formal decision, Failla urged both the defense and the prosecution to limit their references to North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction (Wmd) program. An important part of the government’s argument is that Tornado Cash relieved money laundering to the Lazarus group, North Korea’s state-sanctioned hacking group.
The trial, which was originally scheduled to run two weeks, but is now expected to go for a full month, starts on July 14 in Manhattan.
