Friday, March 21, 2025

After SBF Got 25 Years Salame Got 90 Months Michelle Bond Gets Time to Unfreeze Assets


by Matthew Russell Lee

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 20– On the US v Sam Bankman-Fried trial, hours after the guilty verdict, a book was published: "Crypto Criminal: The Conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried: As live tweeted and investigated from inside the SDNY courthouse by Matthew Russell Lee," audio/book here.

  On March 28, 2024, Inner City Press live tweeted his sentencing, to 25 years.

On May 28 Salame was "sentenced to 90 months."

On August 21, Salame filed that "the Government used the plea negotiations to threaten Salame’s domestic partner and the mother of his child, Michelle Bond." Filing on Patreon here.

 On August 22, after Inner City Press published a curtain raiser on Michelle Bond being presented in SDNY Mag court, it happened, from the thread.

More on X for Subscribers here, Substack here

Jump cut to mid-March 2025: Michelle Bond's retained counsel wrote in about a letter from Sullivan & Cromwell, counsel for the FTX Bankruptcy Trustee, that "advised that Ms. Bond is not permitted to use funds on retainer at Duane Morris LLP because those funds are subject to a TRO." An extension for defense motion to June 20 was requested. Judge Daniels granted to May 4 - the US Attorney's Office says that's a Sunday, so May 5, and to extend the June 10 conference for a month.

This case is US v. Bond, 24-cr-494 (Daniels)

We'll have more on this.

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