Source: Bitcoin.com
“Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm was convicted Wednesday of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, while the jury deadlocked on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate North Korea sanctions. … Storm faced three felony counts stemming from his role in creating the cryptocurrency mixing service. Prosecutors alleged Tornado Cash laundered over $1 billion in criminal proceeds, including funds for North Korea’s Lazarus Group. … Storm’s defense maintained he was merely a developer of open-source software and lacked control over Tornado Cash after its launch. The case is seen as a landmark test of developer liability for decentralized finance (DeFi) tools.” [editor’s note: He developed a piece of software. That was his “crime” – TLK] (08/06/25)
https://news.bitcoin.com/tornado-cash-founder-guilty-of-unlicensed-business-operation/