By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 30, 2022 – Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, leading to his arrest in the Bahamas on December 12, and extradition to the US on December 21.
Late on December 21, the US Attorney's Office issued a video announcing that SBF was "in FBI custody and will be transported directly to the Southern District of New York."
The US Attorney's Office also released the plea agreements (signed December 19) of Caroline Ellison of Alameda (on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here) and of Gary Wang - on Patreon here.
On December 22 when Bankman-Fried was presented and released on $250 million bond, with a condition that "Defendant not to enter into financial transactions in excess of $1,000 without pre-approval of the Government or Court, except to pay for legal costs and fees," see below. Inner City Press live tweeted, thread here.
Since his release, and reassignment to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, it appears that Bankman-Fried has engaged in financial transactions / transfers:
ETH sent from SBF's public wallet to newly created address
0x7386df2Cf7e9776bCE0708072c27d6a7135D51CB which, within hours, received transfers totaling $367k from 32 known Alameda Research wallets
+ $322k from other wallets; all sent to a Seychelles CEX or Ren BTC bridge 0x7386 sent $629k to 0x64e9B9cD74A46f71e7631CB033afA6E7849a8683 which received a further $1M from 11 wallets labelled as Alameda Research
5 separate transactions of <51 ETH were used to move funds to newly created wallets then onwards to a Seychelles based exchange
3 tranches of 200k USDT were also sent from the SBF linked wallet to the FixedFloat exchange
Are these "financial transactions"? Were they approved? Watch this site.
The case us US v. Bankman-Fried, et al., 22-cr-673 (Kaplan).
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