IRS Special Agent Stephan George’s testimony regarding some of Hanfeng Lin’s stolen funds having been put through Tornado Cash seemed credible enough to inhibit the defense from submitting a motion for a mistrial.

On Monday, the defense in the Tornado Cash trial floated the idea of submitting a motion for mistrial after FBI Special Agent Joel DeCapua stated that he hadn’t traced the funds stolen from the first witness in the case, Hanfeng Lin, to the Tornado Cash mixing service.

However, after today’s testimony from IRS Special Agent Stephen George, the second witness that the prosecution called on with the training in tracing assets on public blockchains, the odds of…

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