Tornado Cash developer says DOJ still seeks conviction

Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, said on X that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York submitted a new letter to the court and that the U.S. Department of Justice is still pursuing a conviction against him. Storm criticized the DOJ’s position, saying that unlike the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent acknowledgment that mixer-related rules could chill lawful activity, the DOJ still views transactions passing through Tornado Cash as illegal on the grounds that they facilitated money laundering and sanctions evasion, even when the transactions were legitimate. Storm added that what he described as a crypto war against developers and open source is still continuing.