USA v. BANKMAN-FRIED

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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."

  4. 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."

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. August 22, 2023

    Atty Says Bankman-Fried Missing Meds, Vegan Food In Jail

    Sam Bankman-Fried hasn't had access to his medication in pretrial detention and is subsisting on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail isn't honoring his vegan diet, a lawyer for the disgraced FTX founder told a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday.

  10. August 18, 2023

    SBF Says He Needs Time Out Of Jail To Review Discovery

    Attorneys for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried asked a Manhattan federal judge Friday to allow the fallen crypto boss to travel from his pretrial detention to the Manhattan federal courthouse five days a week so that he can participate in working through the "extraordinarily voluminous discovery" in his fraud case.