{"id":15347,"date":"2023-06-15T12:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/?p=15347"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:52:21","slug":"us-prosecutors-ask-to-remove-new-bankman-fried-charges-from-oct-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/news\/crypto-currency\/us-prosecutors-ask-to-remove-new-bankman-fried-charges-from-oct-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"US prosecutors ask to remove new Bankman-Fried charges from Oct trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to hold a separate trial for Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who faces new charges of foreign bribery, bank fraud and conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors added those charges this year, after Bankman-Fried&#8217;s December 2022 extradition from the Bahamas in the wake of FTX&#8217;s collapse. An initial eight-count indictment accused the one-time billionaire of stealing billions of dollars from FTX customers and lying to investors and lenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bankman-Fried, 31, has pleaded not guilty to all 13 counts. He had asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan to dismiss the new charges or alternatively separate them from his Oct. 2 trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A court in the Bahamas, where FTX was based, on Tuesday temporarily barred the country&#8217;s government from agreeing to let U.S. prosecutors pursue the new charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Wednesday&#8217;s court filing, federal prosecutors in Manhattan cited uncertainty around the decision from the Bahamas, and asked Kaplan to schedule a trial on the five counts for the first quarter of 2024. Prosecutors have said they will drop the charges if the Caribbean nation does not consent to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaplan is expected to hear arguments on Thursday at a 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT) hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyers for Bankman-Fried have asked that at least 11 of the charges be dismissed. They have said the Bahamas also did not consent to a charge of violating U.S. campaign finance laws brought before his extradition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rate-now\"><span id=\"rate-mypost15347\"><\/span> <span id=\"rate-points\"> 0<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery('#rate-mypost15347').raty({\n\t\t\t\thalfShow : true,\n\t\t\t\thalf: true,readOnly: true,score: 0,\n\t\t\t\tpath: \"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/userpro-rating\/images\/\"\n\t\t\t\t});<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to hold a separate trial for Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who faces new charges of foreign bribery, bank fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors added those charges this year, after Bankman-Fried&#8217;s December 2022 extradition from the Bahamas in the wake of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crypto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145752,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15347\/revisions\/145752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}