The U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ) is trying to seize two luxurious jets which are allegedly owned by former FTX chief government Sam Bankman-Fried.
In a brand new courtroom submitting, the federal government says that the defendants’ prices will permit them to grab a Bombardier International 5000 BD-700-1A11 plane and an Embraer Legacy EMB-135BJ plane – two luxurious planes which are suspected to be owned by the disgraced FTX co-founder.
“Pursuant to United States v. Grammatikos, 633 F.2nd 1013, 1024 (2nd Cir. 1980), the Authorities respectfully offers discover that the property topic to forfeiture because of the offenses described in Counts One by way of 4 and Seven of Indictment 22 Cr. 673 (LAK) towards Samuel Bankman-Fried.”
Bankman-Fried is at the moment on trial for allegedly mishandling billions of {dollars} value of buyer funds in addition to defrauding traders.
Yesterday, through the second day of the trial, Bankman-Fried and his attorneys requested to make use of the US regulatory framework on crypto property – or lack thereof – to argue that he technically didn’t misuse any funds.
Bankman-Fried advised that there aren’t particularly any legal guidelines that bar crypto exchanges from utilizing customer-deposited funds for no matter objective they deem match.
Nevertheless, the prosecutors moved to preclude the argument as an irrelevant one which will confuse the jury.
A day earlier than that, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys tried to dam particular traders and insiders from with the ability to testify towards him.
Based on a letter despatched to the choose by the defendant’s attorneys, sure witnesses ought to be barred as a result of the movement for them to testify “is untimely and is devoid of the element on which its requests may plausibly be based mostly.”
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