New York, New York – The judge supervising the criminal affair against the developer of Tornado Cash Roman Storm said on Tuesday that she would not allow the verdict in another related case, Van Loon against Department of the Treasury, to be discussed in 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 hearing – a last state conference in person before the Storm trial begins on June 14 – largely focused on limin requests (A type of preliminary request to exclude certain evidence or arguments, in this case, largely testifies to testimonies, to be authorized during the trial) STORM’s prosecutors and defense team. After hearing the discussion on both sides, Failla decided to present herself on some of the requests in Limin Tuesday afternoon, as well as in telephone conferences later this week.
Although the judge has not yet made his decision on which witnesses will be authorized to testify during the Storm trial, she was firm in his decision to prevent the testimony of the Van Loon affair, which concerned the office of control of foreign assets of the Treasury (OFAC) Ability to sanction the torade in cash. After years of back and forth, the OFAC has struck Tornado Cash in March. A federal judge in Texas then noted that the sanction of the OFAC in species of tornado was illegal and prohibited him from connecting the confidentiality tool in the future.
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Failla said that his mind was not yet invented on the advisability of allowing one or the other side to discuss the sanctions of the OFAC against the tornado treasury, expressing his concern that it confuses the jury.
Storm lawyers told court that they preferred that the sanctions were excluded from the testimony of witnesses and closing arguments during the trial, but the prosecutors said it would be difficult to sail on important evidence, such as the presumed behavior of Storm (including certain research on Google, the sale of $ 12 million in torn tokens and the famous tornado control to a decentralized entity) After the OFAC initially sanctioned the Tornadians in cash without discussion the sanctions themselves.
Although it is not made in an official decision, Failla has urged both defense and prosecution to limit their references to the weapons of mass destruction of North Korea (WMD) program. A key element of the government’s argument is that the Tornado in cash facilitated money laundering for the Lazare group, the hacking group of North Korea.
The trial, initially planned for two weeks, but which should now spend a full month, will start on July 14 in Manhattan.
