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Storm filed a motion for acquittal in September 2025, seeking to have the charges against him dismissed
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In a related filing in April, Storm's lawyers also pointed the court to a recent Supreme Court ruling in a copyright case against internet service provider Cox.
Key facts
- Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm's retrial has been pushed back to April 26, 2027, in light of his pending motion for acquittal
- U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla ordered Tuesday that the retrial will begin on that day in the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse in New York, with a final pretrial conference scheduled for April
- Storm, the co-founder of crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, was accused of facilitating the laundering of more than $1 billion in illicit funds
- Prosecutors later requested to retry Storm on the two unresolved charges and were previously pushing for a retrial in October 2026
Summary
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm's retrial has been pushed back to April 26, 2027, in light of his pending motion for acquittal. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla ordered Tuesday that the retrial will begin on that day in the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse in New York, with a final pretrial conference scheduled for April 20, 2027. Storm, the co-founder of crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, was accused of facilitating the laundering of more than $1 billion in illicit funds. Prosecutors later requested to retry Storm on the two unresolved charges and were previously pushing for a retrial in October 2026. Storm filed a motion for acquittal in September 2025, seeking to have the charges against him dismissed.