The legal team of Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, asked judge to compel the government to conduct a review and disclose all information suggesting that Tornado Cash would not qualify as a “money transmitting business,” present all communications with FinCEN and related materials from the Samourai Wallet case, and reveal when Roman Storm prosecutors became aware of this information

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May 16, 2025

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Roman Storm's defense team wants to know if the U.S. Department of Justice is withholding any information that may help the Tornado Cash developer's case.
Storm’s team is now asking the court to compel the government to disclose all communications with FinCEN and turn over related materials from the Samourai Wallet case.
The defense is asking Judge Katherine Polk Failla, who's overseeing the case, to order the DOJ to review any materials it may have that could help Storm's case and share the documents referenced in the Samourai case, as well as when Storm's prosecutors learned about those materials.

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