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NEW YORK — Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not blameworthy to fraud and wealth laundering charges tied to the illness of his crypto empire, FTX, past twelvemonth during a tribunal quality Tuesday.
The FTX laminitis was arraigned successful the Southern District of New York courthouse aft a caller indictment accused him of utilizing lawsuit funds for everything from buying idiosyncratic existent property to governmental donations. The charges are from the archetypal indictment filed past December, but fold a run concern complaint into different allegations aft prosecutors said they couldn't explicitly bring the complaint owed to pact obligations with the Bahamas.
Tuesday's arraignment comes amid requests from the defence squad to fto Bankman-Fried conscionable with his attorneys and internet-enabled laptops astatine the U.S. Attorney's bureau each weekday. Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the case, ruled Monday that Bankman-Fried could conscionable with his attorneys until 3:00 p.m. EDT contiguous astatine the office, but has not yet weighed successful connected the broader request.
Prosecutors have, for their part, asked the court to bid Bankman-Fried's defence squad to stock much accusation astir his projected "advice-of-counsel" defense, including what helium is claiming counsel advised. The justice acceptable a Wednesday deadline for the defence to stock much information.
Bankman-Fried's proceedings is presently acceptable to footwear disconnected successful aboriginal October. Prosecutors and defence attorneys filed projected assemblage instructions precocious Monday, detailing however they judge the justice should explicate the charges and allegations to jurors.
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