{"id":607193,"date":"2026-05-31T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=818528"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:30:24","slug":"roman-storm-accuses-the-doj-of-weaponizing-debanking-to-sabotage-his-legal-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/roman-storm-accuses-the-doj-of-weaponizing-debanking-to-sabotage-his-legal-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Storm Accuses the DOJ of Weaponizing Debanking to Sabotage His Legal Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mahalo-57-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Department of Justice building.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Storm, who might still face a retrial on the Tornado Cash case, rebuked statements from Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses, who referred to debanking as a \u201ccrock of shit.\u201d He affirmed that the phenomenon was real and that he had experienced it multiple times after having his accounts subpoenaed by the DOJ. Tornado Cash Roman [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm, who might still face a retrial on the Tornado Cash case, rebuked statements from Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses, who referred to debanking as a \u201ccrock of shit.\u201d He affirmed that the phenomenon was real and that he had experienced it multiple times after having his accounts subpoenaed by the DOJ. Tornado Cash Roman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-607193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}