💥 Update:
The third week of the trial of Roman Storm kicked off with defense testimony that rebutted government tracing experts, and a Coinbase employee who used Tornado Cash to make a donation to Urkaine. 👇
🚨UPDATE:
Chainalysis witness may plead the 5th to avoid self-incrimination following a phone call with the Government.
This is after SDNY openly threatened defense witness Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly Capital, allegedly to stop him from testifying.
🚨JUST IN:
IRS Special Agent George, tasked with tracing the Government's first witness' funds to Tornado Cash, testifies that he does not know what crypto[.]com is, doesn't know the difference between ERC-20 and ETH
No Mistrial For Storm: IRS Investigator Saves Dicey Witness, But IRS Agent Stephan George's Methods and Precision are under Serious Question.
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UPDATE in US v. STORM: IRS blockchain tracer Stephan George today testified that he traced 9.7 ETH derived from the defrauding of Hanfeng Lin to Tornado Cash using Chainalysis and TRM Labs tools.
Also, prosecutors indulge in some light heckling of David Z Morris 👇
💥 EXCLUSIVE: Did SDNY Enter A Recovery Scam's Documents Into Evidence against Roman Storm?
We obtained exclusive access to documents from a company called "Payback" that tied the Government's first victim to Tornado Cash – and it doesn't look good.
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Today in the prosecution of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, Storm’s defense team raised the possibility of a mistrial if no foundation could be found for the testimony of the prosecution’s first witness, Hanfeng "Katie" Lin.
The victim of a pig butchering scam, Lin engaged a recovery service that directed her to contact Tornado Cash about lost funds.
But an FBI forensic tracer who has testified for nearly a full day was not instructed by prosecutors to trace Lin’s money, and experts have raised questions about whether any of it actually went to Tornado Cash.
If it did not, Lin’s testimony would have to be stricken and, according to defense attorney David Patton, the entire trial might have to be restarted from scratch.
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