NEW YORK – A Manhattan ju umpire told the court Wednesday morning the fate of tornado cash developer Roman Storm could not reach a unanimous verdict on at least one charge.
A memo to District Judge Catherine Polk Faira of the Southern District of New York came on the fourth day of the Ju Court deliberation. According to an Inner City Press report, Storm’s lawyers suggested that the court would accept a partial verdict, but the prosecutors demanded that the ju judge give Allen’s charges. Essentially, he sought direction from the court to continue deliberations to reach a unanimous verdict on all charges.
Fila has sided with the prosecutors, directing them to bring the ju court to court and try to reach the verdict, but telling them that they have a right not to agree or change their views if the agreement is truly unreachable.
The judge’s notes from deliberations over the past few days show that the ju apprentice is carefully considering all aspects of the case, including some of the more procedural aspects, such as the venue. On the first day of deliberations, the ju judge asked the venue’s evidence (basically justification of the prosecutor) to file a lawsuit in 2023 with the Great Ju trial in order to obtain the charges.
Yesterday, the ju judge asked the judge for a transcript from the testimony of FBI agents who conducted cell site analysis of Dragonfly Capital venture capitalist Tom Schmidt, who invested $900,000 in Peppersec Inc., the parent company of Trunado Cash. In their notes, they sought a transcript of the agent’s testimony, “Prove the Venue.”
The ju apprenticed also asked whether the Storm is legally necessary to respond to requests for assistance from foreign law enforcement agencies and whether the interim wallet is also included in the (ofac) Specially Designated Citizens (SDN) list of the Foreign Assets Control Bureau.
Storm has been charged with one count each with conspiracy to commit money laundering, to run an unlicensed money communications business, and to violate international sanctions. If Storm is convicted on all charges, he faces the largest sentence in prison for 45 years. Prosecutors say hackers and other cybercriminals, including the Lazaro Group, the North Korean state-sanctioned hacking team, have surpassed more than $1 billion in criminal income, through tornado cash, Storm and his colleagues Alexy Pertef and Roma Semenov.
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