Tornado Cash Was a ‘Giant Washing Machine’ for Dirty Crypto: Feds
Is Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm just a smart and selfless software engineer? Or is the 34-year-old Russian expat the go-to money launderer for the world’s biggest scammers and hackers?
A federal jury in Manhattan heard two very different stories in opening statements Tuesday for Storm’s $1 billion money laundering conspiracy trial.
Prosecutors pointed to three of the biggest crypto heists in recent years — including North Korea’s $600 million hack attack on the online gaming platform Axie Infinity.
Each time, the criminals hid their stolen money by running it through Tornado Cash, prosecutor Special US Attorney Kevin Gerard Mosley told the seven-woman, five-man jury.
Storm’s popular online tool “mixes”…
