Crypto leaders press White House to drop Tornado Cash criminal case – DL News
- Co-founder Roman Storm has been charged with money laundering.
- VCs and the DeFi Education Fund sent a letter to crypto czar David Sacks.
- The plea follows the Department of Justice’s changed stance on crypto prosecutions.
Prosecutors should drop their “lawless” campaign to imprison Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, crypto heavyweights said on Monday in a letter addressed to David Sacks, the White House crypto and AI czar.
Storm’s upcoming criminal trial in the Southern District of New York has become a cause célèbre within crypto.
Led by the DeFi Education Fund, an influential policy group, the letter was signed by executives at venture capital firms Paradigm, Multicoin Capital, and 6th Man Ventures.
Storm’s protocol, Tornado…
