| SBF
Wants His
Sureties Kept
Secret Like
Ghislaine
Maxwell But
She Was In
MDC, Insider
Tale
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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LITERARY SDNY,
Jan 3 – The
day for Sam
Bankman-Fried
to appear
before Judge
Kaplan had
arrived. And
hours before,
his lawyers
had put in a
letter asking
to seal and
keep secret
the names of
his
co-signers.
Kurt Wheelock
immediately
tweeted it
out, drawing a
slew of
replies about
Kevin O'Leary
and various
members of
Congress.
At
the
courthouse, he
prepared a
letter to
Judge Kaplan
seeking to
unseal the
co-signers'
information.
It was the
first issue in
the
proceeding,
after SBF pled
not guilty:
what about the
sealing?
Judge Kaplan
said he would
grant the
sealing,
pending any
application by
the news
media. Kurt
hit send, an
email to
chambers and
Assistant US
Attorney
Nicolas Roos,
and Mark
Cohen.
To try to keep
Bankman-Fried's
co-signers
secret, an
analogy was
made to
Ghislaine
Maxwell, who
got partial
sealing (and
no call-in
line for her
trial, despite
COVID
restrictions
and Kurt's
repeated
requests). But
Maxwell had
not been
released on
bond, like
Bankman-Fried
got. It had
been said that
SBF had so
much notoriety
he could
neither flee
nor continue
sketchy crypto
business.
Maxwell was
notorious and
hadn't been
released.
She had been
deemed a
flight risk.
But wasn't
SBF?
There
were two U.S.
Marshals in
the courtroom.
Kurt wondered
if it meant
SBF might be
remanded. But
it was for
security, or
crowd control.
SBF sat
twitchy at the
defense table.
Remand never
came up; the
prosecutors
didn't
mention, much
less ask for
it.
The rest went
by in a flash
- discovery
was being
produced,
there was a
schedule for
the defense's
motions, and a
trial date of
October 2,
2023. Kurt
tweeted it,
then ran down
to the lobby
to await
Bankman-Fried's
exit. There
had been a
scrum on the
way in, and a
larger one
awaited.
A Patreon
supporter Kurt
had spoken
with before
was in the
lobby, said
he'd asked SBF
on the
security line
how he
intended to
plead. He said
SBF replied,
F*ck you.
Great public
relations.
Co-signers
secret and let
them eat
cake.
When
SBF came down
the elevator
Kurt ran
outside, and
was shunted to
the side by
security. He
nodded with
SBF's security
guard, the
same guy who'd
done it for
Ghislaine
Maxwell and
her family. He
filmed the
scrum into the
car - no
questions were
possible,
unlike with
Kevin Spacey
or even more
so Michael
Avenatti -
then did a
stand-up.
Upstairs there
was talk about
the sealing.
More on
Patreon here.
Song
1 here;
more on
Patreon here
1 and here 2 and here 3 and here 4 and here 5 and here
6 and here 7 and
here 8
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