{"id":615495,"date":"2026-06-17T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/on-chain-in-court-what-happened-in-crypto-legal-news-this-week\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:52:46","slug":"on-chain-in-court-what-happened-in-crypto-legal-news-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/on-chain-in-court-what-happened-in-crypto-legal-news-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"On-Chain, In Court: What happened in crypto legal news this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polymarket insider trading case and a retrial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm are expected to move forward in late 2026 while former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky awaits a response to his motion to vacate his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>US prosecutors propose late 2026 retrial for Tornado Cash co-founder<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors on Monday submitted a proposed schedule for the potential retrial of Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm to begin later this year. Storm was found guilty on one of three charges related to illegal money transmitting in 2025, but a jury deadlocked on two other charges, setting the stage for a potential retrial.<\/p>\n<p>US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Jay Clayton Clayton proposed an Oct. 20 final pretrial conference in Storm\u2019s case, signaling a potential trial start date of late October or November 2026. The filing noted that the timeline was subject to the court\u2019s decision on a Rule 29 motion filed by Storm requesting acquittal of the remaining charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/on-chain-in-court-crypto-legal-news3?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_medium&amp;utm_campaign=rss_feed_medium\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polymarket insider trading case and a retrial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm are expected to move forward in late 2026 while former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky awaits a response to his motion to vacate his sentence. US prosecutors propose late 2026 retrial for Tornado Cash co-founder Federal prosecutors on Monday submitted a proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-615495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615495","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=615495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}