These 12 people will decide the fate of Sam Bankman-Fried

A large physician’s assistant, a bid conductor and a retired concern banker are reportedly among the 12 individuals who volition yet determine connected the destiny of erstwhile FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

As per a study from Cointelegraph’s on-the-ground newsman Ana Paula Pereira, the 12 jurors were narrowed down from a database of 45 connected Oct. 4, the 2nd time of proceedings successful Manhattan.

The imaginable jurors were each fixed a infinitesimal to present themselves by sharing their background, age, employment, education, narration past and children.

Pereira noted that 1 prospective juror said his woman worked for a instrumentality steadfast that provided services to FTX successful the past — though it isn’t wide whether helium was selected.

One prospective juror was reportedly excused aft revealing she worked for a steadfast that invested successful FTX and Alameda Research, according to Matthew Russell Lee from Inner City Press.

District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan past discussed assemblage enactment with the prosecutors and Bankman-Fried’s defence lawyers earlier revealing the last 12 assemblage members astir 15 minutes later.

Scenes from extracurricular New York’s Supreme Court — a abbreviated locomotion distant from wherever Bankman-Fried’s fraud proceedings is being held. Source: Cointelegraph

As per Oct. 4 reports from Bloomberg and TechCrunch, the last database of jurors shows the sheet volition beryllium female-dominated, comprising 9 women and 3 men.

Their ages scope from the aboriginal 30s to the precocious 60s, and their professions span assorted industries, including health, financial, legal, IT and education. Five of them are university-educated. The afloat database of jurors is below:

• A antheral successful his precocious 60s, who was an concern banker astatine a steadfast called Salomon Brothers. He completed his Master of Business Administration astatine Stanford University.
• A man, property 59, didn’t accidental what helium does for enactment but said his institution is presently being sued. It is understood that the antheral has served arsenic a assemblage subordinate successful the past.
• A man, property 61, works for the United States Postal Service. He has nary woman oregon children and has served arsenic a assemblage subordinate successful the past.
• A woman, property 39, presently works arsenic a doc adjunct and was erstwhile a aesculapian missionary successful the Dominican Republic. She’s 10 weeks large and joined to a web developer.
• A middle-aged pistillate who erstwhile studied astatine Duke University and has acquisition moving with nonprofits and managing fundraisers.
• A woman, property 50, works arsenic a bid conductor. She’s a parent of 5 children. Two of the 5 children person reportedly been convicted of crimes.
• A woman, property 65, is simply a retired corrections officer.
• A woman, property 33, works arsenic a caregiver successful Westchester, New York and reportedly studied astatine the State University of New York, Binghamton.
• A woman, property 40, is presently unemployed arsenic a societal idiosyncratic and antecedently studied astatine Princeton University and Columbia University.
• A pistillate who works astatine a schoolhouse successful the Bronx, New York. She antecedently studied astatine the University of Buffalo and Syracuse University.
• A pistillate who works successful advertising. She has an 18-year-old girl and a 12-year-old son.
• A woman, property 55, who works arsenic a peculiar acquisition teacher successful Rockland, New York.

Related: Sam Bankman-Fried FTX proceedings — 5 things you request to know

After the assemblage members were selected, a 15-minute opening connection was delivered by the prosecutors and defense. Testimonies from Marc Julliard, a Coca broker who mislaid astir $80,000 to FTX, and Adam Yedidia, Bankman-Fried’s erstwhile adjacent friend, were past heard earlier Judge Kaplan called it a day.

Bankman-Fried’s transgression proceedings is expected to take spot implicit six weeks. He is facing 7 fraud-related charges for his relation arsenic CEO successful FTX’s daze illness successful November.

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