USA v. BANKMAN-FRIED
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1:22-cr-00673
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September 19, 2023
2nd Circ. Unlikely To Free Bankman-Fried After Diary Leak
A Second Circuit panel strongly indicated Tuesday that it won't release FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried from pretrial detention after he leaked a key witness' diary to the media, with one appeals judge pointing out that if the defendant "makes his own bed, he sleeps in it."
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September 12, 2023
Bankman-Fried Can't Get Out Of Jail To Prep For Trial
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday rejected an effort by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released from jail to prepare for his trial in three weeks, ruling he was unpersuaded by the failed crypto boss's unsupported claims that he can't access electronically stored discovery while in a Brooklyn detention center.
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September 07, 2023
Ex-FTX Exec Cops Plea, But Not Cooperating Against SBF
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame copped Thursday to charges including scheming with Sam Bankman-Fried to make tens of millions of dollars of fraudulent political donations to boost the fallen crypto exchange, pleading guilty without an agreement to cooperate against his former boss.
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September 06, 2023
SBF Can't Go Free While Appealing Detention, 2nd Circ. Says
The Second Circuit declined on Wednesday to immediately release FTX founder and ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried while he challenges a New York federal judge's order keeping him in pretrial detention, but the appellate court did agree to consider his appeal.
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September 05, 2023
Bankman-Fried Jail Appeal 'Trivializes' Diary Leak, Feds Say
Manhattan federal prosecutors urged the Second Circuit on Tuesday to keep Sam Bankman-Fried in pretrial detention for leaking a key witness's diary to the media, saying the FTX founder's appeal "trivializes the severity of his conduct and the plain intention behind it."
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August 30, 2023
Bankman-Fried Can't Bar Late-Filed Evidence From Trial
A Manhattan federal judge said Wednesday that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried can't stop prosecutors from relying on recently produced evidence at his upcoming fraud trial, calling the defendant's complaints of unfair delay "not at all accurate."
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August 29, 2023
Feds Say SBF Can't Call Ex-FEC Chair, London Atty To Testify
Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge on Monday to bar both the former chair of the Federal Election Commission and an English barrister from testifying as expert witnesses in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's upcoming criminal trial.
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August 28, 2023
SBF Asks 2nd Circ. To Undo 'Speculative' Jail Order
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried urged the Second Circuit on Friday to let him out of jail ahead of an October fraud trial, saying a Manhattan federal judge improperly made "speculative" analytical leaps to infer that his protected free speech amounted to witness tampering.
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August 25, 2023
SBF Slams Feds For 'Yet Another' Pretrial Document Dump
Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday criticized federal prosecutors for producing 4 million additional pages of discovery documents less than six weeks before the FTX founder's fraud trial, arguing that prosecutors "can't be allowed to dump millions of pages" with limited plans for Bankman-Fried to access them while in prison.
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August 23, 2023
Bankman-Fried Says Feds Can't Pry Into Blame-Atty Defense
Attorneys for Sam Bankman-Fried told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that the government is not entitled to materials outlining the FTX founder's planned defense that his allegedly fraudulent conduct was based on advice from the crypto exchange's former in-house counsel and its external attorneys at Fenwick & West.