Roman Storm's Tornado Cash Retrial Pushed to April 2027

In brief

• Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned Roman Storm's retrial to April 26, 2027, in an order entered Tuesday.
• His motion for acquittal, argued on April 9, remains undecided.
• Storm was convicted in August 2025 of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, with the jury split on money laundering and sanctions violation charges.

Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm will not be retried on the two counts a jury deadlocked on until the spring of 2027, after Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned the proceeding by more than six months.

The order, entered Tuesday in the Southern District of New York, sets the retrial for April 26, 2027 at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse and amends the pretrial schedule to run from expert disclosures on February 5, 2027 to a final conference on April 20. Failla excluded the intervening time under the Speedy Trial Act.

She cited Storm's pending motion for acquittal and "his related request to continue the retrial to a date in late April 2027," recording that the later date came from the defense.

Federal prosecutors under U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton had asked in March for a retrial beginning October 5 or 12 this year. Storm's lawyers called that premature while the acquittal motion was live.