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The U.S. Southern District Court of New York rejected each pre-trial motions filed by FTX laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) — including a question to disregard the lawsuit oregon “sever” definite charges.
District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the case, made the ruling connected June 27, according to court filings.
The tribunal said that aft proceeding each of the arguments related to the pre-trial motions, it has determined that they are “either moot oregon without merit.”
The disgraced crypto speech laminitis is present acceptable to look proceedings starting October 2.
Seven pre-trial motions
SBF’s defence filed 7 pre-trial motions connected May 8, which included an wide question to disregard the trial, arsenic good arsenic motions to sever the charges levied against the FTX laminitis aft helium was extradited from the Bahamas.
The defence argued that these charges should not beryllium levied owed to suffering from “multiple ineligible flaws.” These included charges related to bribing overseas authorities officials and illicit run financing.
In bid to guarantee the proceedings would not beryllium delayed by legalities related to the post-extradition charges, U.S. prosecutors said connected June 15 that they would withdraw them for the clip being.
They added that the severed charges would not beryllium forgotten and would beryllium levied against SBF successful 2024 aft the archetypal proceedings concludes. However, prosecutors refused to driblet the complaint related to the improper financing of governmental campaigns contempt it being omitted from the warrant of surrender issued successful the Bahamas.
The tribunal upheld the complaint and rejected each of the pre-trial motions, excluding the ones related to the post-extradition charges that were dropped.
Skeletons successful the closet
New evidence publicized by the FTX betterment squad led by CEO John Ray III connected June 22 revealed that the exchange’s enactment knowingly commingled and misused lawsuit funds since time one.
The documents overgarment a representation of a blatant misuse of powerfulness and a wide disregard for customers arsenic the enactment misappropriated billions successful lawsuit and firm funds for idiosyncratic gain.
The enactment — including SBF, Gary Wang and Nishad Singh — utilized lawsuit and firm funds similar their idiosyncratic piggy slope — spending hundreds of millions connected speculative trading, governmental donations and luxury properties.
According to the filing:
“The FTX Group commingled lawsuit deposits and firm funds, and misused them with abandon.”
The betterment squad is acceptable to people its adjacent study successful August, which should uncover much astir the interior machinations of FTX and its epic downfall.
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