SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 29 – 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." Full 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, thread
On June 19 Bond's lawyers requesting a hearing about Salame's plea, saying she is a third party beneficiary and that the case provides a rare opportunity to cast Brandeis' sunshine onto the SDNY prosecutors' "tactics in obtaining pleas."
On July 22, amid the US v Storm crypto trial, this:
AUSA Simon: Mr. Breslin seems to say we agreed to not tell the court about an agreement. This is serious and may implicate Rule 11.
Afterward: "Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge George B. Daniels: Attorney(s) present for Defendant(s): Eric R. Breslin; Melissa S. Geller. Next status conference is scheduled for September 25, 2025 at 10:00 a.m
On July 23 Michelle Bond's new counsel from Duane Morris filed a redacted copy of Bond's supplemental retainer letter, about the plea discussion. We aim to have more on retainer letters.
On July 28 Judge Daniels Both parties are directed to submit and exchange, by letter, a list of intended witnesses to be examined at the hearing no later than September 15, 2025
On September 15 Bond's lawyer filed that "Ms. Bond intends to call the following witnesses to be examined at the evidentiary hearing on September 25, 2025: • Danielle Sassoon, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York."
On September 29 Bond's lawyer from Duane Morris wrote in, after jointly suggesting Oct 16, that "There is no world in which Ms. Sassoon’s testimony could be deemed cumulative or irrelevant, particularly as the government has refused to permit any other government attorney involved in the case to testify. (See ECF 58). Next, to be clear, it is not the scope of Ms. Sassoon’s testimony to which the defense objects. It is the qualification that the defense must somehow make a pre-determined showing which the government will then evaluate and make a determination, in some unidentified individual’s own mind, that Ms. Bond’s argument has merit. The Court already considered the government’s argument that insufficient evidence of an inducement exists and ordered a hearing anyway. And, it is the government, not Ms. Bond, that made Ms. Sassoon a central character in this drama" - full 7 page filing on Patreon here
We'll have more on this, and on retainer(s).
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This case is US v. Bond, 24-cr-494 (Daniels)
We'll have more on this.
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