U.S. DoJ asks SDNY court to retry Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm in October 2026

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York to schedule an October 2026 retrial for Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm on unresolved sanctions and money laundering charges. Storm was previously convicted only for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and sentenced to five years, a move critics say clashes with recent Treasury language and a key Uniswap ruling viewed as favorable to DeFi developers.