by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 21 – 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.
"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?
Well, no. Past 6 pm on December 29, 2023 the US Attorney Office wrote to Judge Kaplan "to provide notice to the Court and the defendant that it does not plan to proceed with a second trial in the above-captioned matter." So no evidence and cross examination about the campaign finance and China bribe counts, no getting to the bottom of who took the money. It is known that officials in the Bahamas, whose request to drop these charges DOJ cited in severing them, took SBF's and FTX customers' money.
On February 6 the prosecutors asked for a Curcio hearing on SBF.
On February 7, Judge Kaplan set the Curcio hearing - with SBF present - for Feb 21: "ORDER as to Samuel Bankman-Fried. The Court will conduct a Curcio hearing in this matter on February 21, 2024 at 2:00 pm."
Inner City Press was there. SBF, asked questions by Judge Kaplan, said Nope and Yep, he has conferred with his appellate counsel Alexandra Shapiro, present in the gallery. Now Cohen and Everdell will move to withdraw, with Mukasey and Young's sentencing submission due Feb 27
Past 11 pm on February 27, SBF's memo posited his sentencing guideline at 63 to 78 months and asked for a sentence "that returns Sam promptly to a productive role in society." Memo on Patreon here
More on X for Subscribers here, Substack here
We'll have more on this.
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