by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 25 – 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 immediately published the superseding indictment on its DocumentCloud here.
On September 15, the prosecutors objected to SBF's bid to ask jurors about, among others things, effective altruism. Full letter on Patreon here.
On September 25 after losing in the Second Circuit, SBF's lawyer again wrote to Judge Kaplan demanding that unlike other defendants there SBF be released from the MDC, arguing that (unlike any other defendant) "he alone knows the facts which are also critical in preparing his defense... hisknowledge and insight cannot be replicated." 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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