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Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm case moves to trial as judge denies dismissal

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Jesse Coghlan1 hour agoTornado Cash’s Roman Storm case moves to trial as judge denies dismissalA New York federal judge denied Roman Storm’s bid to dismiss US government charges. Storm is the co-founder of the crypto-mixing platform Tornado Cash.349 Total viewsListen to article 0:00NewsOwn this piece of crypto historyCollect this article as NFTCOINTELEGRAPH IN YOUR SOCIAL FEEDFollow ourSubscribe onRoman Storm, a developer and co-founder of Tornado Cash, is set to face a criminal trial over his creation of the crypto-mixing platform after a New York judge denied his motion to dismiss.


In a Sept. 26 telephone conference, New York district court judge Katherine Polk Failla denied Storm’s motion to dismiss three federal charges brought by the US Department of Justice, adding that government prosecutors had lodged plausible allegations against him.


Storm and fellow co-founder Roman Semenov were charged last August with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit sanctions violations and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business.


Judge Failla said she didn’t believe Tornado Cash was different from other financial services or money-transmitting firms and that she couldn’t accept that Storm was being charged for writing code.


Related:Crypto community backs Tornado Cash devs with $2.3M legal fund


Storm’s trial is slated for Dec. 2. He faces a maximum possible sentence of 45 years in prison if found guilty on all three charges.


Semonov, a Russian national, is still at large.


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