Before Roman defense attorneys rested on Tuesday, one issue seemed to stimulate some controversy in the courtroom was a shirt wearing the co -founder and monetary developer Tornado at a coding event in 2019.
During the opening data in the American boycott court of the southern region of New York, it was reported that both prosecutors and stormy lawyers had launched a cash shirt from the hurricane that the developer was wearing, which he claimed to “wash” the ether through the confusion service.
A video posted by Ethboston present appeared for the year 2019 Display The storm that wears the shirt, which stated “Keep the Ether cleanliness with Tornado.cash”, shows a washing machine that leads to ETH “Clean”.
“The defendant was benefiting from a giant washing machine for dirty money,” He said American lawyer Kevin Musli is in court on July 15, according to a report from the City Interior Press. “He was wearing a shirt in this sense. Mr. Storm had options. Once he knew that he was washing money to criminals, he was still choosing to commit crimes. Follow.”
The legal storm team, which presented its opening statement after the prosecutors, He said The shirt was “Mimi, a joke in poor taste”. they bring Up the Tornado Cash Carchandise for the second time on Monday during the argument against a proposal to exclude information about infiltrators using the confusion service.
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Whether the jury or Judge Catherine Viela think of a “joke” shirt or an indication that the storm and other cash developers from the hurricane, it claimed that it runs the “washing” encryption service at the time of publication. He faces charges of money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money -making device and conspire to violate US sanctions.
The storm will not witness its defense
After the start of the jury on July 14, it is expected that the criminal trial of Storm will continue for about three weeks. Prosecutors closed their case on Friday after a session of witnesses, including from the FBI, internal revenue service, and individuals participating in piracy accidents.
“The way the prosecutors draw a guilty image of the Roman storm and the Tornado Cash team is a deceitful matter,” said a spokesman for the Golem Foundation, which contributed 50 ETH in the Storm. “This case is really similar to blame on banking developers for financial fraud that occurs on the Internet. It’s stupid.”
On Tuesday, storm lawyers He said The co -founder of criticism will not witness Tornado. In an interview before the trial, he said he was not sure whether he would take the situation. The defense team rested on Tuesday after more than three days of listening to witnesses, and it is likely to start closing the data on Wednesday.
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