Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s legal defense fund is seeing an influx of donations as the software creator’s defense team preps for a possible retrial on charges of money laundering and sanctions violations. The Ethereum Foundation on Thursday data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://x.com/ethereum/status/1953546801614925978″ rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>said it will match up to $500,000 in donations to Storm’s defense fund.
The jury in Storm’s trial was deadlocked — unable to reach a unanimous verdict — on two of the three counts against him, data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-found-guilty-partial-verdict” title=”null”>finding the developer guilty of running an unlicensed money transmitter.
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