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Tornado Cash co-founder said they were ‘done for’ after sanctions, US jury hears

By Samuel Rubenfeld ( July 21, 2025, 22:02 GMT | Insight) -- Upon learning that Tornado Cash was taking deposits from a cryptocurrency address tied to a blacklisted North Korean hacking organization, co-founder Roman Storm told his colleagues that they were “done for,” US jurors heard today. The comments came in a Telegram chat read aloud by FBI special agent Joel DeCapua at Storm’s trial as he was tracing $600 million in proceeds from a March 2022 hack of the Ronin Network to Tornado Cash. Upon learning that Tornado Cash was taking deposits from a cryptocurrency address tied to a blacklisted North Korean hacking organization, co-founder Roman Storm told his colleagues that they were “done for,” US jurors heard today....

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