針對龍捲風現金開發商羅馬風暴的檢察官正在試圖避開紐約法官迫使他們移交其他證據的可能性

針對龍捲風現金開發商羅馬風暴的檢察官正在試圖避開紐約法官迫使他們移交其他證據的可能性

Prosecutors in the case against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm are attempting to to sidestep the possibility that a New York judge forces them to hand over additional evidence that could help Storm's case.

針對龍捲風現金開發商羅馬風暴的檢察官正在試圖避開紐約法官迫使他們移交有助於風暴案的其他證據的可能性。

In a Wednesday letter to the court, prosecutors pushed back against Storm’s lawyers’ assertions that they’d failed to meet their so-called Brady obligations — a constitutional requirement for prosecutors to turn over any potentially helpful evidence to the defense before trial.

在星期三致法院的信中，檢察官推遲反對風暴律師的斷言，即他們未能履行所謂的布雷迪義務，這是檢察官在審判前將任何潛在有用的證據移交給辯護的憲法要求。

At the heart of the debate is a recent production of evidence in another case in the Southern District of New York (SDNY): the legal pursuit of Samourai Wallet co-founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill. Both cases involve a crypto mixing service that prosecutors allege was knowingly used to launder crime proceeds,

辯論的核心是在紐約南部地區（SDNY）的另一項案件中的最新證據製作：對薩穆萊·錢特（Samourai Wallet）聯合創始人基恩·羅德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·洛納爾根·希爾（William Lonergan Hill）的法律追求。這兩個案件都涉及檢察官聲稱有意識地洗錢的加密貨幣混合服務，

In the Samourai Wallet case, however, prosecutors recently admitted to having a conversation with two Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) officials in 2023 — before pressing charges — in which the government employees said they didn’t believe the mixing service would qualify as a money transmitting business under their guidelines and didn’t need a license to operate. Lawyers for Rodriguez and Hill accused prosecutors of suppressing critical evidence and violating their right to due process. Last week, the judge overseeing the case denied their motion for a hearing on the matter, telling them instead to include their concerns in their pre-trial motion due at the end of the month.

然而，在薩穆萊錢包案中，檢察官最近承認，在2023年與兩個金融犯罪執法網絡（FINCEN）官員進行了交談（在施加訴訟之前），政府僱員表示，他們不相信混合服務將作為貨幣符合其指導下的企業的資格，並且不需要執行許可證。羅德里格斯（Rodriguez）和希爾（Hill）的律師指控檢察官抑制關鍵證據並侵犯了其正當程序的權利。上週，監督此案的法官否認了他們就此事進行聽證的動議，而是告訴他們將關注點包括在本月底的預審動議中。

Though the cases are separate, lawyers for Roman Storm expressed concern that the prosecution’s failure to inform them of their communications with FinCEN regarding Samourai Wallet’s status as a money transmitting business also potentially constituted a Brady violation in Storm’s case.

儘管這些案件是分開的，但羅馬風暴的律師表示擔心檢方未能告知他們與Fincen關於Samourai Wallet作為貨幣傳輸業務的地位的溝通，也有可能構成Brady的違法行為。

In their Wednesday response, prosecutors said that the FinCEN conversation wasn’t evidence.t was an opinion, not a fact, they stated, and therefore not required to be turned over to the defense. Prosecutors also claimed that their discussion with FinCEN was irrelevant to Storm’s case, because it wasn’t specifically about Tornado Cash.

檢察官在周三的回應中說，這不是證據。檢察官還聲稱，他們與Fincen的討論與Storm的案件無關，因為這並不是專門針對龍捲風現金。

“Tornado Cash simply was not part of the conversation.”

“龍捲風現金根本不是對話的一部分。”

Prosecutors said that they didn’t have similar conversations with FinCEN about Tornado Cash, claiming that there were “no such interactions comparable to those described in the Rodriguez Disclosures.”

檢察官說，他們與Fincen沒有關於龍捲風現金的類似對話，聲稱“沒有與Rodriguez披露中描述的互動相媲美的互動”。

“As the government has repeatedly explained to the defense in this case, the government has neither sought nor obtained an opinion from any employee at FinCEN — or any other government agency — regarding whether the Tornado Cash service is subject to registration obligations.”

“正如政府在這種情況下反復向辯方解釋的那樣，政府既沒有尋求或從Fincen或任何其他政府機構的任何僱員那裡獲得意見，否則龍捲風現金服務是否符合註冊義務。”

The case against Storm is expected to begin on July 14.

預計對風暴的案件將於7月14日開始。