DOJ moves forward with trial for Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm

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The Department of Justice will continue its case against Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm. 

Previously, the DoJ said it was going to reconsider, after an internal memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the department would “stop participating in regulation by prosecution in this space.”

There was a slight change in the case, per the letter, which will drop the charge of Storm allegedly not complying with the money-transmitter business registration rules. 

Storm now faces a trial, and the remaining charges are focused on money laundering. 

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