FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried plans to present financial expert witness in defense

Embattled FTX laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) plans to telephone a azygous fiscal adept witnesser for his defence successful the ongoing transgression trial.

In an Oct. 23 letter, SBF lawyers projected inviting Joseph Pimbley, a fiscal adept with implicit 30 years of acquisition successful derivatives and securities trading, to antagonistic testimonies provided by the authorities witnesses, including erstwhile FTX executives and the erstwhile CEO of Alameda Research Caroline Ellison.

Pimbley’s grounds volition halfway connected Alameda’s enactment of recognition (LOC) fluctuations from $1 cardinal to $3 cardinal betwixt Oct.7, 2021, and Sept. 18, 2022. Additionally, helium volition supply penetration into the important alteration successful June 2022.

Furthermore, his grounds volition connection a elaborate relationship of the balances for users not affiliated with Alameda oregon FTX arsenic of past November, arsenic outlined successful the authoritative filing.

“The bulk of balances for non-Alameda, non-FTX users (i.e., accounts excluding Alameda’s accounts and FTX’s ain accounts) are concentrated successful conscionable 4 coins (USD, BTC, ETH, and USDT) comparative to the hundreds of coins defined wrong the FTX database, and much than 75% of non-Alameda, non-FTX balances originate from accounts that person spot borderline enabled, spot borderline lending enabled, oregon amusement futures activity.”

Pimbley’s grounds would beryllium based connected information extracted from the FTX’s database.

Pimbley was 1 of the seven adept witnesses SBF had projected for his defence successful August. However, Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected the projected list, citing shortcomings successful each individual’s stated opinions and the wide irrelevance of planned testimony.

Despite the rejection, the Court ruled that SBF could telephone 4 of these witnesses successful effect to authorities witnesses.

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