By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 28 – 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, 2022 and extradition to the US on December 21.
On July 26, the SDNY prosecutors informed Judge Lewis A. Kaplan they are dropping the campaign finance charges against SBF, at the request of the Bahamas.
On July 27, SBF's lawyers cursorily asked Judge Kaplan for "leave to file under seal" documents SBF already gave to the New York Times.
Inner City Press immediately filed opposition to sealing in full. Filed letter on DocumentCloud here.
On July 28 near 5 pm, SDNY prosecutors filed their motion seeking to jail SBF, stating "the defense provided the Court and the Government pdf versions of the three documents shared with the reporter, which totaled eight pages." Photo here. But these are still being withheld from the public, despite their provision to (one) media.
The prosecutors add, "On July 27, 2023, the Government asked defense counsel for the documents shared with the reporter in their original form (which presumably would have been in Word format and contained metadata), but has yet to receive a response." Nor to the opposition to sealing these documents already provided to (a) media. Watch this site.
More on Substack here
It previously successfully opposed SBF's bid to seal his co-signers. Watch this site.
Back on July 13, SBF's lawyers sent Judge Kaplan a sealed list of people, not stating even the number of people, for whom the security guard requirement - to show not sharing phones with SBF - should to waived. They argue, as they did with the co-signers, that the list should be sealed. And they say the SDNY prosecutors agree.... Letter on Patreon here
Early on July 14, Inner City Press filed to unseal the list, filing on CourtListener here.
The case is US v. Bankman-Fried, et al., 22-cr-673 (Kaplan)
More with analysis on Substack here
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