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Update: This morning at trial, defense counsel asked the government's forensic analysis witness whether prosecutors asked him to trace these funds. Answer: *No* So to recap, the government seemingly skipped diligence & put up a witness with no link to Tornado Cash at all?!

Update from U.S. v. Storm with David Z. Morris. Roman Storm's defense team has raised the spectre of a mistrial after an FBI tracing expert failed to confirm that the prosecution's first witness' stolen funds had in fact been sent to Tornado Cash.

This has been a mistrial before it even began

“95% of adults are now familiar with VPN technology, and 46% use VPNs. That’s up to 105 million Americans protecting their privacy today." Privacy is NOT a crime! #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #DigitalRights”

There's a special place in hell for prosecutors sharing discovery files embedding visual elements with a graphic resolution that is so low that the document is completely unusable.

It's beyond me why judges still tolerate such obnoxious behaviors that harm the rights of the defence.

Feature, not a bug

Samourai is not a Bitcoin mixer, fucking Ahmed. I'm certain he got fed this bullshit by the feds.

Do not forget that Chainalysis falsely attributed connections of the Fog mixer to Roman Sterlingov and that he was not allowed to defend against that.

Imagine a burlar getting reduced sentence because he testifies against gun manufacturer. Wtf

We got access to private communications with the recovery firm that tied Roman Storm to the Government’s first witness, pig-butchering scam victim “Katie” Lin. And oh, boy. Victims paid the service, called Payback, over $90,000 in fees for “fraudulent tracing reports.” The

An update from Roman Storm's trial. DOJ had years to prepare for this, and so far their case is basically "crypto is bad!" Their first witness had literally nothing to do with Roman or Tornado Cash. DOJ is trying to imprison a DeFi developer and this is the best they can do?

Autism Capital 🧩 Sorry guys, Judge Rosenberg’s hands are tied:

Wait. Wait. Wait. Are you seriously telling me that a LIFO heuristic has been used to trace funds on a public blockchain? 😳 x.com/innercitypress…

The problem is however, the SDNY has ruled the witness testimony remains admitted as-is and now force the defense a disproportiate amount of effort to debunk it. Not to mention the opportunity of interference in that process from both the prosecution and the judge.

A possible whistleblower? Let's go!

From "hackers sent 100ETH to Tornado" to "9.7ETH have indirectly reached Tornado" very quickly. If it's really what happened, it's borderline "falsified evidence" territory. 😡 x.com/theragetech/st…

Government cryptocurrency tracing expert says he doesn't know how Ethereum works

Your daily reminder that the Dept of Justice is run and staffed by people who think that an equally valid way to resolve criminal charges is to simply identify a suspect and then ask them if they did it. No need for all that pointless due process and time-wasting jury trials.