NEW in Tornado Cash: Custody Issue Not Important To Storm's Defense

Every once in a while, a judge makes a decision that blows your mind by such epic proportions that you don’t even know how to caption it.

Today, Judge Failla, overseeing the prosecution of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, effectively reinforced her September decision that it does not matter whether Tornado Cash took custody of customer funds – the developers could still be charged with licensing violations, **even though the Government is no longer arguing that Tornado Cash needed a license.**

"The word license doesn’t apply here," […] “Theres no available license to move criminal proceeds, and the jury wont be instructed that there's any licensing issues at stake."

Because of this, what senior FinCEN officials have had to say on this “isn’t exculpatory” (read: doesn’t matter): “You haven’t persuaded me that the custody issue is as important as you say.”

Honestly at a loss for words for how someone could be sent to trial to face decades in prison when not even senior employees of the regulatory agency in charge seem to know how to interpret their own guidance.

Crazytown, my guys.