New York – Manhattan’s jury responsible for deciding by Tornado Cash developer, Roman Storm’s Fate, said in court on Wednesday morning that they had been blocked, unable to make a verdict unanimous on at least one of the charges.
The note to the district judge Katherine Polk Failla from the South District of New York came on the fourth day of the jury deliberations. According to reports by Inner City Press, Storm lawyers suggested that the court accept a partial verdict, while the prosecutors asked that the jury has an allen accusation – essentially, an investigation of the court to continue to deliberate in an attempt to reach a unanimous verdict on all the accusations.
Failla redeemed himself with the prosecutors, bringing the jury to the courtroom and asked them to try to make a verdict, but to tell them that it is their right not to accept or change their opinions, if an agreement really cannot be concluded.
The jury notes in the last days of deliberations have indicated that the jurors carefully envisage all the facets of the case, including some of the most procedural aspects such as the place. On the first day of the deliberations, the jury asked what evidence of the place (basically, the justification of the prosecutors to carry the case in the South New York district), the prosecutors showed the Grand Jury in 2023 to obtain their indictment.
Yesterday, the jury asked the judge the transcriptions of the testimony of an FBI agent who carried out an analysis of the cellular sites on the venture capital Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly Capital, who invested $ 900,000 in the mother company of Tornado Cash Peppersc Inc. The fact that SCHEDT is based in New York was used by the prosecutors to establish this place – It seemed to be a logic. In their note, they asked for transcriptions from the testimony of the agent “to prove the place”.
The jury also asked questions about the question of whether Storm was legally required to answer the requests for help for foreign police, and if intermediate portfolios were also included on the list of specially designated nationals of the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC).
Storm has been charged with a conspirator of conspiracy in order to commit money laundering, a conspiracy in sight to operate a company of transmission of money without license and conspiracy in order to violate international sanctions. If Storm is found guilty of all accusations, he risks a maximum sentence of 45 years in prison. Prosecutors say that, through Tornado Cash, Storm and his colleagues Alexey Pertsev and Roman Semenov, helped pirates and other cybercriminals – including the Horo Piracy team, the Korea group of State Korea, the Lazare group – washes more than a billion dollars in criminal product.
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