The federal judge supervising the proceedings of Roman Storm refused to order the Ministry of Justice to examine his files for any material he could have missed who would help the promoter of Tornado Cash at the end of a 30 -minute hearing Friday morning, although she told government that she should have no disclosure problems.
Judge Katherine Polk Failla also judged that there was no problem of Brady violation with the conversations of the Ministry of Justice with the Financial Crimes Surceiving Network (Fincen) on the question of whether the mixers had to register as money issuers – the conversation that prosecutors pursuing the case of Samurai Wallet had with the representatives of Fincen, but not the prosecutor on the case of Storm – One of the Doj’s representatives said at the telephone conference at the phone conference.
If the judge had found that the prosecutors had refused information, this could affect the case in the future.
“I will not need an additional examination based on the representations made that there are no additional equipment of this type, and on the basis of my opinions that I do not think that the equipment is at the excuse,” she said.
“There is a difference between” it is something that I would like to know “and” it is a violation of Brady “,” said the judge, referring to a precedent of the Supreme Court who forces prosecutors to share all the information that could help a defendant to the accused’s team.
Storm defense lawyers argued during the hearing they had to know when prosecutors in their business learned of the Fincen conversation.
“They plan to say that they charge a plot to operate a silver issuer without license,” said defense lawyer Brian Klein. “Is my question to know who are they supposed to be allowed?
Thane Rehn, a prosecutor who worked on the Doj affair against Sam Bankman Freed, said that his team would not say that the Tarade in cash was to obtain a license.
“The word” license “does not apply here and the jury will not be informed of license problems … What we intend to prove to the trial is that the defendant knew that they are transmitting funds derived from criminals,” he said.
The judge has made prosecutors at several times at several times if they planned to modify other theories or accusations in the weeks preceding the trial, saying that this could be unfair to the defense. The trial is supposed to start in less than two months.
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