by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 8– Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX on August 11, 2023 for tampering with witnesses in the upcoming trial against him was ordered remained to jail.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan heard from prosecutors that in Putnam County Correctional Facility, SBF could be given access to discovery material over the Internet.
Kaplan replied that he assumed the defendant would be in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, like fellow crypto-fraud defendant Miles Guo and others.
On August 12 Inner City Press, which published the first book about SBF's remand ("Crypto Creeps," here, sample on Substack here) found the Bureau of Prisons notice, listing SBF in the MDC.
On August 14, the DOJ prosecutors docketed their superseding indictment against SBF, with Count 8, Campaign Finance, dropped ostensibly at the request of the Bahamas. Inner City Press published the superseding indictment on its DocumentCloud here.
On August 25 SBF's lawyers wrote in again, saying two days a week in the holding cell with a laptop is not enough. Full letter on Patreon here
On August 29, the US filed that "the USMS has also offered to transport the defendant two days per week to the 500 Pearl Street cellblock" - full letter on Patreon here
On September 5, DOJ wrote in to say SBF will come on Sept 6 - and that in MDC he is exempt from prisoner count - full letter on Patreon here
On September 8, after Ryan Salame pled guilty, SBF's lawyers filed a letter complaining among other things that "Defense counsel were informed by the one of the Marshals that the delay was because another inmate could not be transported with the rest of the inmates heading to the courthouse. Mr. Bankman-Fried was therefore transported to the courthouse on a later bus." Full letter on Patreon here.
On August 22, SBF was arraigned by SDNY Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn. Thread
More August 22 details on Substack here
More book sample on Substack here. Extended on Patreon here.
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