On Dec. 29, 2023, past 6 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), the Department of Justice (DOJ) conveyed in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan its decision to not move forward with a subsequent trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, the ex-CEO of FTX.
FTX’s Bankman Fried Avoids Second Trial
According to several reports on Friday evening, prosecutors have decided against pursuing a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). Matthew Russell Lee of the Inner City Press disclosed the update on X, posting a snapshot of the DOJ’s letter and also distributing it on his Patreon.
“So no evidence and cross examination about the campaign finance and China bribe counts, no getting to the bottom of who took the money,” Russell Lee wrote on Friday. “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.”
Following the announcement, the X user known as ‘amuse’ weighed in on the development. “Shock: SBF won’t fo
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