| FTX
Bankman-Fried
Wants Secrecy
for Signers of
$250 Million
Bond Unlike
Other SDNY
Defendants
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 3 –
Sam
Bankman-Fried
of FTX was
indicted in
the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York,
leading to his
arrest in the
Bahamas on
December 12, and
extradition to
the US on
December 21.
He was
released on
$250 million
bond, with the
requirement of
co-signers.
Now he
wants them secret:
"LETTER MOTION
addressed to
Judge Lewis A.
Kaplan from
Mark S. Cohen
dated January
3, 2023 re:
Request to
Redact Names
and
Identifying
Information
for Certain
Bail Sureties
. Document
filed by
Samuel
Bankman-Fried.
(Cohen,
Mark)."
Full
six page
letter on
Patreon here.
The US
Attorney's
Office also
released the
plea
agreements (signed
December 19) of Caroline
Ellison of Alameda
(on Inner City
Press'
DocumentCloud here)
and of Gary
Wang - on
Patreon here.
On
December 22
when
Bankman-Fried
was presented
and released
on $250
million bond,
with a
condition that "Defendant
not to enter
into financial
transactions
in excess of
$1,000 without
pre-approval
of the
Government or
Court, except
to pay for
legal costs
and fees," see
below. Inner
City Press
live tweeted,
thread here.
Since his
release, and
reassignment
to
Judge Lewis A.
Kaplan, it
appears that
Bankman-Fried
has engaged in
financial
transactions /
transfers:
ETH
sent from
SBF's public
wallet to
newly created
address
0x7386df2Cf7e9776bCE0708072c27d6a7135D51CB
which, within
hours,
received
transfers
totaling $367k
from 32 known
Alameda
Research
wallets
+ $322k
from other
wallets; all
sent to a
Seychelles CEX
or Ren BTC
bridge 0x7386
sent $629k to
0x64e9B9cD74A46f71e7631CB033afA6E7849a8683
which received
a further $1M
from 11
wallets
labelled as
Alameda
Research
5
separate
transactions
of <51 ETH
were used to
move funds to
newly created
wallets then
onwards to a
Seychelles
based exchange
3
tranches of
200k USDT were
also sent from
the SBF linked
wallet to the
FixedFloat
exchange
Are these "financial
transactions"? Were
they approved?
Watch this
site.
The case us US
v. Bankman-Fried, et
al., 22-cr-673 (Kaplan).
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