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Bankman-Fried
Case CFTC
First Filed
Order Asserts
Jurisdiction
Over Crypto
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 22, 2022 –
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.
Late on December
21, the US
Attorney's
Office issued
a video
announcing
that SBF was
"in FBI
custody and
will be
transported
directly to
the Southern
District of
New York."
That ruled out
the MDC in
Brooklyn
(EDNY) overnight,
or Essex
County
Correctional
Facility in
New Jersey. As
Inner City
Press noted, there
*is* the Westchest
County
DOC, with
its orange
jumpsuits. And, it
emerged, he
was flow into
the
Westchester
airport in
White Plains - in
SDNY.
Minutes before
US Attorney
Damian Williams'
press video
was released,
the Commodities
Futures
Trading
Commission
filed an amended
complaint and
proposed
Consent Order
- which,
notably, says
"Admits
the
jurisdiction
of the CFTC
over the
conduct and
transactions
at issue in
this action
pursuant to
the Act."
Proposed
consent order
on Patreon here. Where is
the SEC?
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.
Wang's,
like Ellison's, has
a large
redaction.
Does it comply
with FOIA, and
applicable case law
about judicial
documents in
criminal
cases?
District Judge
Ronnie Abrams,
coordinating
on transparency
in SDNY, is
said by several
sources to be
away. But the
Internet, and
ECF, are
alive.
But another
question:
where did the
two plead
guilty? Inner
City Press was
in and around
the
Magistrates
Court all day.
Before the
Part 1 judge,
former
prosecutor John P.
Cronan? Watch
this site.
Here is
the
indictment, on
Inner City
Press'
DocumentCloud
here.
The
US Attorney's
Office is said
to be
negotiating a
bail package
with SBF -
this while
they seek and
obtain remand
for low income
defendants
for selling
crack, or even
K2. On
December 21,
the Office
won the
continued
detention of a
woman from
Columbia
seeking asylum
following the
murder of her
husband
(and, selling
fentanyl)
- Inner City
Press
exclusive here.
The case us US
v. Bankman-Fried, 22-cr-673
(Abrams).
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