The Roman Storm defense team wants to know if the U.S. Department of Justice is promoting any information that may help in the Tornado Cash Developer case.
In A letter filed late this FridayDefense attorneys said recently disclosed to another, somewhat similar, the case raised concerns that prosecutors were misled by the judge who was in charge of the case or otherwise playing “fast and loose.”
“The defense recently found that the government has been possessing exculpatory materials since August 2023 that goes amid a major issue in this case: If a noncustodial cryptocurrency mixer is a ‘money that sends a business’ for the purposes of 18 USC § 1960,” the file said. “The government’s failure to produce materials in the fall of 2023, when the storm in Rome was accused and first appeared in the court, it formed a violation of the brady with the material that prevented his defense,” even though the DOJ said it was I -Drop a part of its case against the storm.
The STORM team determines the DOJ case against two Samaurai wallet developers, another crypto mixer. In that case, defense lawyers said Earlier this month Prosecutors have delayed the sharing that two Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) officials told the DOJ that the mixer does not look like a money transmitter.
Prosecutors denied allegations in a File of the courtsaying their disclosure is up to date and that the views of Fincen officials are not formal guidance.
The DOJ said the two cases were “superficial just the same,” the defense filing on Friday.
“But what the government recognizes as a superficial similarity is, in fact, the main feature of the opposite interpretation of Fincen’s guidance and the scope of section 1960:
The noncustodial nature of both protocols, “the filing said.” Users use united control over their properties is a basis for Mr. Storm’s movement to remove and force the discovery of Fincen materials. “
The defense demands Judge Katherine Polk Filla, who administers the case, to order the DOJ to review any materials that may help Storm’s case and share the documents referenced in the Samamaurai case, as well as storm prosecutors learned about the materials.
