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The Washington, D.C. townhouse owned by Guarding Against Pandemics was listed as “contingent” on a real estate website, suggesting the party handling the deal has accepted an offer.
Prosecutors said they were prepared to try SBF on his original eight-count indictment starting in October, with the remaining five charges to be decided by Judge Lewis Kaplan.
DoJ lawyers said the decision came following litigation filed by the FTX co-founder in the Bahamas protesting the additional charges, which could be lengthy.
The U.S. cannot try Sam Bankman-Fried for the charges until a lengthy appeals process in The Bahamas has been exhausted, defense attorneys stated.
Over 3.6 million documents have yet to be produced by prosecutors in the criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, according to his lawyers.
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The prosecution and FTX debtors already have access to the documents, which concern 11 topics and may contain material favorable to SBF.
The charges relating to Sam Bankman-Fried’s alleged bank fraud, operating an unlicensed money transmitter service and bribing Chinese officials may be dropped.
A bankruptcy judge denied a motion for an independent examiner in February, leading to an appeal that may now go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
The author didn’t want to give away too many details on the book, but did note that his recounting of the FTX collapse "aims to read like a piece of…