针对龙卷风现金开发商罗马风暴的检察官正在试图避开纽约法官迫使他们移交其他证据的可能性

针对龙卷风现金开发商罗马风暴的检察官正在试图避开纽约法官迫使他们移交其他证据的可能性

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.

针对龙卷风现金开发商罗马风暴的检察官正在试图避开纽约法官迫使他们移交有助于风暴案的其他证据的可能性。

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，检察官推迟反对风暴律师的断言，即他们未能履行所谓的布雷迪义务，这是检察官在审判前将任何潜在有用的证据移交给辩护的宪法要求。

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,

辩论的核心是在纽约南部地区（SDNY）的另一项案件中的最新证据制作：对萨穆莱·钱特（Samourai Wallet）联合创始人基恩·罗德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·洛纳尔根·希尔（William Lonergan Hill）的法律追求。这两个案件都涉及检察官声称有意识地洗钱的加密货币混合服务，

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，在萨穆莱钱包案中，检察官最近承认，在2023年与两个金融犯罪执法网络（FINCEN）官员进行了交谈（在施加诉讼之前），政府雇员表示，他们不相信混合服务将作为货币符合其指导下的企业的资格，并且不需要执行许可证。罗德里格斯（Rodriguez）和希尔（Hill）的律师指控检察官抑制关键证据并侵犯了其正当程序的权利。上周，监督此案的法官否认了他们就此事进行听证的动议，而是告诉他们将关注点包括在本月底的预审动议中。

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.

尽管这些案件是分开的，但罗马风暴的律师表示担心检方未能告知他们与Fincen关于Samourai Wallet作为货币传输业务的地位的沟通，也有可能构成Brady的违法行为。

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.

检察官在周三的回应中说，这不是证据。检察官还声称，他们与Fincen的讨论与Storm的案件无关，因为这并不是专门针对龙卷风现金。

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

“龙卷风现金根本不是对话的一部分。”

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.”

检察官说，他们与Fincen没有关于龙卷风现金的类似对话，声称“没有与Rodriguez披露中描述的互动相媲美的互动”。

“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.”

“正如政府在这种情况下反复向辩方解释的那样，政府既没有寻求或从Fincen或任何其他政府机构的任何雇员那里获得意见，否则龙卷风现金服务是否符合注册义务。”

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

预计对风暴的案件将于7月14日开始。