New York, New York – the judge who supervises the criminal case against Tornado cash developer Roman Storm, said Tuesday that he will not allow the verdict in another related case, Van Loon vs. Treasury Department, is discussed during the next Storm trial.
“The words ‘van Loon’ will not appear in this trial,” said District Judge Katherine Polk Failla during a Tuesday hearing in Manhattan.
The audience, a final status conference in person before the Storm trial begins on June 14, focuses largely on Limine motions (A type of motion prior to the trial to exclude certain evidence or arguments, in this case, to a large extent testimony of testimony, of being allowed during the trial) both of the prosecutor and the Storm Defense Team. After listening to the discussion of both sides, Failla decided to govern some of the motions in Limine on Tuesday afternoon, as well as during the telephone conferences at the end of this week.
Although the judge has not yet decided on what witnesses they will be able to testify during the Storm trial, it was firm in his decision to prevent testimony on the Van Loon case, which referred to the Office of External Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury. (OFAC) Ability to punish the tornado cash. After years of round trip, Ofac eliminated Tornado’s cash in March. A federal judge in Texas discovered that the sanction of Ofac to Tornado’s cash was illegal and forbade him to relax the privacy tool in the future.
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Failla said his mind was not yet invented if allowing both sides to discuss the sanctions of AC against Tornado’s cash, expressing his concern that he would confuse the jury.
Storm’s lawyers told the court that they would prefer the sanctions to be excluded from the testimony of the witnesses and the closing arguments during the trial, but the prosecutors said it would be difficult to navigate important evidence, such as the supposed behavior of Storm. (including certain searches on Google, selling tokens torn for a value of $ 12 million and control giving in tornadoes to a decentralized entity) After Ofac initially sanctioned the tornado cash without discussion the sanctions themselves.
Although it was not done in a formal failure, Failla urged both defense and prosecution to limit its references to the weapons of mass destruction of North Korea (WMD) program. A key part of the government’s argument is that Tornado Cash facilitated money laundering for the Lazarus group, the piracy group sanctioned by North Korea.
The trial, initially scheduled to run two weeks, but is now expected to arrive for a full month, will begin on July 14 in Manhattan.
