Judge Katherine Polk Failla stated that Roman Storm’s legal team’s request for the government to share any and all information that might help the defendant, including when prosecutors learned about the FinCEN conversation, did not constitute a Brady violation, stating that this is just general defense interest in the information

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May 30, 2025

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"There's a difference between 'this is something I'd like to know' and 'this is a Brady violation,'" the judge said, referring to a Supreme Court precedent that requires prosecutors to share any and all information that might help a defendant with the defendant's team. Storm's defense attorneys argued during the hearing that they needed to know when the prosecutors in their case learned about the FinCEN conversation.

Judge Katherine Polk Failla also ruled that there were no Brady violation concerns with the Department of Justice's conversations with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) about whether mixers needed to register as money transmitters — the conversation that prosecutors pursuing Samourai Wallet developers had with FinCEN officials, but not the prosecutors on Storm's case — one of the DOJ representatives said in the phone conference on Friday.

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Week 22 of 2025