New York – Manhattan’s jury in charge of deciding the fate of Tornado Roman Storm’s cash developer, the court said Wednesday morning that they were in a dead point, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in at least one of the charges.
The note for the Katherine Polk Failla district judge of the Southern District of New York arrived on the fourth day of the jury’s deliberations. According to the reports of City City Press, Storm’s lawyers suggested that the court accept a partial verdict, while prosecutors requested that the jury receive a position from Allen, essentially, an instruction of the court to continue deliberating in an attempt to reach a unanimous verdict in all charges.
Failla put on the side of the prosecutors, takes the jury to the courtroom and instructs them to try to reach a verdict, but telling them that it is their right not to agree or change their opinions, if an agreement cannot really be reached.
The jury notes in recent days of deliberations have indicated that jury members are carefully considering all the facets of the case, including some of the most procedural aspects such as the place. The first day of deliberations, the jury asked what evidence of the place (basically, the justification of prosecutors to bring the case in the Southern District of New York), the prosecutors showed the Grand Jury in 2023 to obtain their accusation.
Yesterday, the jury asked the judge transcripts of the testimony of an FBI agent who performed a cell site analysis on Risk capitalist Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly Capital, who invested $ 900,000 in the Matrix of Tornado Cash in the company Peppersec Inc. The fact that Schmidt is used in New York in New York Jurio, according to his note, seems to realize this logaro. In their note, they requested transcripts of the agent testimony “to prove the place.”
The jury has also asked whether storm was legally required to answer the requests for the help of the foreign police, and if the intermediate wallets were also included in the list of specially designated nationals (OFAC) of the Office of Foreign Association (OFAC).
Storm has been accused of a conspiracy count to commit money laundering, conspiracy to operate a business without a license that transmits businesses and conspiracy to violate international sanctions. If Storm is convicted of all charges, he faces a maximum sentence of 45 years in prison. Prosecutors say that, through Tornado Cash, Storm and their colleagues Alexey Pertsev and Roman Semenov, they helped the computer pirates and other cybercriminals, including the piracy team sanctioned by the state of North Korea, the Lazarus group, washing more than $ 1 billion in criminal revenues.
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