A U.S. judge has postponed Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s retrial to April 26, 2027, in New York, with a final pretrial conference scheduled for April 20 that year. Storm, co-founder of the crypto mixing service, was previously convicted on one money-transmitting count, while a jury failed to reach verdicts on money laundering and sanctions-evasion charges involving over $1 billion in alleged illicit funds. Prosecutors seek to retry him on the unresolved counts, which could carry up to 40 years in prison. The delay allows consideration of Storm’s acquittal motion and arguments referencing a recent Supreme Court copyright liability decision.
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