| On SBF
Now US Drops
2d Trial on
China Bribe
& Campaign
Finance
Charges
Bahama$ Gambit
by
Matthew Russell Lee,
Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 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,"
paperback coming (in the
morning?) for now, 200 page
ebook here.
Soft cover here.
"When at last the
Sam Bankman-Fried trial
started on October 3, 2023
with jury selection, after Sam
had been remanded to the MDC
jail, the courtroom on the
26th floor was full, and an
overflow room established on
the 23rd. The author
went back and forth between
them, and down to the Press
Room he'd been admitted to
after six months of covering
cases here, after he was
thrown out of the UN...
"He did not know
then how it or he would turn
out. It could have been
called, Crypto Houdini. But it
wasn't." And a second trial?
Well, no.
Past 6 pm on December 29, 2023
the US Attorney Office wrote
to Judge Kaplan "to provide
notice to the Court and the
defendant that it does not
plan to proceed with a second
trial in the above-captioned
matter." So no evidence and
cross examination about the
campaign finance and China
bribe counts, no getting to
the bottom of who took the
money. 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. We'll have
more on this. Letter on
Patreon here.
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