| After
SBF 25 Years
Salame 90
Months
Michelle Bond
Said No
Sassoon But US
Now Says Yes
by
Matthew Russell Lee
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 24 – 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"
- full 7 page
filing on
Patreon here
But
then, after Bond's
lawyer Eric
Breslin of
Duane Morris
said no more
Sassoon, the
US Attorney's
Office on
October 24 wrote in
that "given
that the
defendant will
no longer call
former U.S.
Attorney
Danielle
Sassoon as a
witness at
this hearing,
the Government
intends to do
so. Ms.
Sassoon has
very limited
availability
in November.
Accordingly,
the Government
requests that
the Court
schedule a
continuation
of the
hearing,
during which
the Government
is permitted
to call Ms.
Sassoon to
testify,
irrespective
of whether the
defendant
chooses to
call Ms.
Parlovecchio
later. The
Government has
conferred with
Ms. Sassoon,
and she is
available any
day the week
of November 10."
We'll
have more on
this, and on
retainer(s).
More details on X
for Subscribers
here, Substack here
This
case is US v.
Bond,
24-cr-494 (Daniels)
We'll have more
on this.
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