Takeaways From The Final Tornado Cash Status Conference Hearing

Today, the southern region of New York (SDNY) hosted a hearing at the final status conference of Tornado’s criticism issueThe trial that begins this Monday, 7/14.

The session was actually held, and among the attendees was Judge Catherine Polk Villa (the judge who heads the trial), the Romanian Tornado founder Storm, and the members of the defense and prosecution.

The storm faces three fees: conspiring to commit money laundering, conspiring to operate unlicensed money transfer work, and conspiring to commit sanctions violations.

The main topics discussed in the session included:

• The reasons for the New York Court have become a place for trial
• The effect of the storm on a Bloomberg The reporter who reported Tornado Cash in March 2020
• Whether all the procedures conducted by the founders and developers from Tornado Cash to keep the hurricane funds increase the conspiracies in Accuse
• Acceptable data extracted from the phone’s co -founder of Tornado Cash Alexey Pertsev
• How is the Failla Judge plan to focus more on how STORM is making more profitability than the Crypto Tornado Cash Mixing program itself

Before engaging in these topics, Judge Failla shared some major details about trial procedures.

Details about the trial

The trial will start on Monday morning at 9:30 am EST, and one of the first elements on the list is to choose the jury.

Judge Villa indicated that the trial will not be registered, broadcast or re -broadcast. (I will be there to cover most, if not all, though!)

She also stated that she wanted to see the trial that concluded within three weeks, although she added that she does not think that she would need to spend some time from the trial in early August to celebrate the birthday of her sick mother.

What’s more, Judge Failla stated that the opening statements will not be made until Tuesday, 7/15.

Why is the Tornado Cash trial in SDny

According to propaganda, the trial is running in SDNY because the storm runs an easy -to -transaire website from New York City for a period of time.

The prosecution argued that the storm is repeatedly communicating with an investment capital manager (VC) who funded Tornado Cash, which was also based in New York City at the time.

The prosecution added that the storm submitted repeated requests from the VC director and that the requests were not only related to financing.

The storm “correction” a Bloomberg Correspondent

The prosecution explained how, in March 2020, the storm contacted Bloomberg The reporter who wrote a story about Tornado Cash to obtain the reporter to change the story so that the coverage does not imagine that the authorities imagine criticism in a negative light.

They argued that the storm was talking to the reporter and persuasion, the reporter said to change the story, “Make the story inaccurate.”

The defense retreated, saying that the storm only contacted the correspondent to ensure “appropriate corrections” of the story.

The storm did not talk about this matter in the session.

All this in promoting charged plots?

The prosecution presented the idea that all the efforts made by Storm and its founders participating in operating their profitable works that used Tornado Cash technology strengthened all the conspiracies that the storm was charged.

One of the efforts that the prosecution was cited was the storm and its participating institutions who encourage Tornado Cash users in the United States to use the service, and thus create a larger set of capital for money North Korean infiltrators put the program For mixing with (which makes it easy for anonymous money).

The judge retracted when the prosecution filed this argument, and asked the prosecution to clarify whether he believed that anything that the founders participating in the hurricane worked on his feet on his feet.

This claim gave a pause, and at this moment, a defense lawyer moved to refuse Accusation Because of the lack of place.

The judge has hurriedly denied the request before claiming that such a request had thwarted so much that he had caused her to “outbreak of bee cells.”

Graiki Progress Report

Throughout the session, Judge gave a villa Graykey Extract data from Alexey Pertsev. (Persif was sentenced to five years in prison in the Netherlands for his involvement with Tornado Cash.)

Towards the last part of the session, I asked both the prosecution and defense if they had questions about the Persif phone, then they raised questions about whether or not the data extracted from the Persif phone is acceptable or not. She decided to postpone her decision on this issue until the trial.

Then I asked both the prosecution and defense the data concerned, as well as the process that was obtained and prepare to respond to the case during the trial.

Focus on the front end

Judge Failla was clear that at least the beginning of the trial would not focus on Tornado Cash as a mixing service, but more on the web site, the front end, which was created to facilitate transactions through the Tornado Cash program.

The judge said: “We will not think about mixing the encryption.”

However, she said she was waiting for a response from the defense about what she wrote and presented to the court about the encryption mixing services.

Witnesses and suggestions At the border

Regardless of the above issues, the attendees discussed the witnesses in the case and additional suggestions At the border (Those who did not arise before or during the trial because they are not relevant, harmful or unacceptable).

None of the witnesses’ names were revealed in the session, though, the prosecution stated that “Witness No. 1” was recently identified and that they met this witness.

The judge admitted to the defense request to exclude some of the materials related to witness No. 1.

Multiple movements At the border I was discussed. During this part of the session, the judge informed the claim that witnesses should not do things like discussing the emotional pressure they were exposed to from the existence The money they put through Tornado Cash Frozen.

Instead, she said that she preferred the witnesses who were victims to raise their frozen money, whether they had contacted Tornado Cash team or not in efforts to make their money heterogeneous.

What was not discussed

At any time during the hearing today, the US Treasury Office to Combat Foreign Assets (OFAC) faded from the Hurricane of Money from the sanctions list, nor that the court recently dropped the appeal of the OFAC metal center on this issue.