💵 Tornado Cash Defense Failed
🆓 U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York dismissed a motion by one of the developers of the crypto-mixer Tornado Cash, Roman Storm, and ruled in favor of the case proceeding.
✔️ Storm and his colleague, Roman Semenov, are accused by U.S. authorities of creating the crypto-mixer for criminal purposes and facilitating the laundering of more than $1 billion in illicit funds.
➡️ The defense argued that writing code should be protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, just like free speech.
✔️ However, the judge stated that evading sanctions and money laundering are unrelated to that protection.
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