by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 7 – 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," paperback coming (in the morning?) for now, 200 page ebook here.
Soft cover here.
"When at last the Sam Bankman-Fried trial started on October 3, 2023 with jury selection, after Sam had been remanded to the MDC jail, the courtroom on the 26th floor was full, and an overflow room established on the 23rd. The author went back and forth between them, and down to the Press Room he'd been admitted to after six months of covering cases here, after he was thrown out of the UN and took on this new identity. Between the three locations he began to paint of picture of the trial, of Sam and the world around him. The portrait was made up of tweets or Xs, of vlogs filmed out on Foley Square and at the prisoners' entrance on Park Row.
"He did not know then how it or he would turn out. It could have been called, Crypto Houdini. But it wasn't." And a second trial?
On November 7 Judge Kaplan issued a two page order explaining his bases for denying SBF's bid to dig into alleged inconsistencies in Gary Wang's and Nishad Singh's prior testimony, the former about "allow negative" and on Singh whether he felt "a pit in his stomach" as he bought the house or after. Judge Kaplan found it "of no moment."
Inner City Press live tweeted the voir dire and now, more on Substack here
and all on Patreon here
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