Tornado Cash Founders Raise $350K for Legal Defense, Backed by Snowden
• Tornado Cash developers Storm and Pertsev raised over $350K for legal defense, with support from Snowden • Storm arrested in 2023 by DOJ, faces money laundering and sanctions violation charges, pleads not guilty • DOJ alleges over $1B in crypto moved through Tornado Cash mixing service to provide anonymity • Pertsev has been in jail since 2023 in Netherlands on related charges • Snowden tweeted that "Privacy is not a crime" in support of their legal defense