Prosecutors Cite Bitcoin Fog Ruling Against Roman Storm's Venue Challenge
Federal prosecutors cited a Bitcoin Fog appeals ruling in their October 5 filing opposing Roman Storm’s post-trial acquittal bid. The filing said the precedent supports keeping the money-laundering and unlicensed money-transmission counts tied to Tornado Cash in New York, while the venue issue remains contested.
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People watching the case in New York notice that the venue fight is still active, because prosecutors are using the Bitcoin Fog ruling to support trying the Tornado Cash counts there. That matters today to Storm and to anyone following the venue question, since the filing keeps the money-laundering and unlicensed money-transmission charges anchored in Manhattan.
Before this filing, the venue question was being argued on its own terms; now the Bitcoin Fog ruling is being used in the Storm case as a precedent. In practice, that means the government is not changing the charges, but is using a separate appeals decision to back its position that New York is the proper forum for those counts.
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