Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm files motion to overturn his conviction for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, while prosecutors weigh a retrial on two hung charges carrying up to 40 years in prison.

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm is asking a federal judge to overturn the only conviction he received in his criminal case: conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business. A jury convicted him on that count after a month-long trial in the Southern District of New York, but it deadlocked on two more serious charges alleging money laundering conspiracy and sanctions-evasion conspiracy. Storm’s motion argues that prosecutors failed to prove he committed a crime and that the case was improperly brought in New York, while the government continues to weigh whether to retry the two hung counts. Those unresolved charges are significant because they carry much longer exposure than the five-year maximum tied to the money-transmitting conviction, and the case has become a closely watched test of whether open-source software developers can face criminal liability for how others use privacy tools.

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