Roman Storm’s Defense Team will know if the US Ministry of Justice is withholding information that can help Tornado Cash Developer’s case.
In a letter filed late on Friday, defense attorneys said recent revelations in another, something similar, case raised concern that prosecutors either mislead the judge to oversee the case or otherwise played “quick and loose.”
“The defense recently learned that the government has occupied Exculpatory materials since August 2023, which goes to the heart of a basic question in this case: About a non -muching cryptocurrency -mixer is a ‘money that transmits business’ for 18 USC § 1960,” archived. “The government’s failure to make these materials in the fall of 2023, when Roman Storm was indicted and first appeared in court, constitutes a Brady overcome that has materially condemned his defense,” even after DOJ said it would drop part of his case against storm.
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Storm’s team refers to the DOJ’s case against two developers of Samorai Wallet, another crypto. In this case, defense lawyers said earlier this month that prosecutors delayed to share that two financial crime networks (fincen) -officials told DOJ that the mixer did not look like a money sending.
Prosecutors denied the claims in a court filing and said their information was timely, and that the finc -official’s views were not formal guidance.
DOJ said the two cases are only “superficially similar,” The Defense Archishing Friday said.
“But what the government characterizes as a superficial equality is actually the nuclear function, which lies in the heart of the contradictory interpretations of the FINC -The Guide and Scope of Section 1960:
The non -protocols do not -do -luster character, “said the archiving.” The fact that users exercised only control over their assets was a basis for Mr. Storm’s movement to dismiss and force the discovery of fincen materials. “
The defense asks Judge Katherine Polk Failla, who oversees the case to order DOJ to review all materials it may have that can help Storm’s case and share the documents mentioned in the Samorai case, as well as when Storm’s prosecutors learned about these materials.
