In a Sept. 26 filing, Judge Lewis Kaplan, presiding over the criminal case against Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, issued rulings on the admissibility of certain types of evidence in his forthcoming criminal trial.
Judge Kaplan began by ruling that government prosecutors are permitted to introduce direct evidence of Bankman-Fried’s alleged crimes.
This includes evidence of actions either authorized by, directed by, or performed by Bankman-Fried. Specific evidence concerns false statements to an unnamed bank, illegal campaign financing, bribery of a Chinese official, the creation and manipulation of FTX’s FTT token, and prioritization of payments to certain creditors after FTX’s collapse.
Notably, the judge declined to rule immediately on the admissibility of evidence related to auto-delete policies that erased FTX communications. Judge Kaplan said that this may be admissible in order to show that Bankman-Fried knew of and intended his alleged cri
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