1 year ago
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused erstwhile FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried of leaking the backstage diary of Caroline Ellison to the New York Times.
The accusation comes aft the NYT published an article which had Ellison's backstage musings, starring to the DOJ seeking a prohibition connected each out-of-court statements made by witnesses and different parties successful the case.
“The defendant’s actions—sharing idiosyncratic writings of Caroline Ellison’s with a New York Times reporter—implicate the halfway interest of Rule 23.1 that disseminating worldly related to the “testimony oregon credibility of prospective witnesses” presumptively involves a important likelihood oregon prejudice to a just proceedings and the owed medication of justice," the U.S. Attorneys wrote.
Rule 23.1(a) forbids lawyers and their agents from releasing non-public accusation astir a lawsuit if it is apt to interfere with a just trial.
The attorneys reason that an bid restricting extrajudicial statements is indispensable owed to the aggravated media attraction this lawsuit has received and the defendant's effort to manipulate media sum to his advantage.
They besides accidental that the defendant's actions whitethorn taint the assemblage excavation and represent harassment of Ellison. They are besides acrophobic that this would deter different imaginable proceedings witnesses from testifying owed to fearfulness of nationalist humiliation and idiosyncratic discrediting.
This petition comes arsenic FTX’s interim enactment has filed a abstracted civilian case against Bankman-Fried, Ellison, and different executives seeking to retrieve currency and reverse transactions that are collectively worthy implicit $1 billion.
Among the allegations successful the suit are that Bankman-Fried diverted $10 cardinal of FTX.US funds to his idiosyncratic account, his member Gabriel planned to bargain the land federation of Nauru with instauration funds, and implicit $100 cardinal was donated politically utilizing mixed company-customer funds.
Ellison, according to the suit, gave herself a $22.5 cardinal bonus during a large FTX currency crisis.
Edited by Parikshit Mishra.
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