Evidence of the former billionaire’s political donations were “intertwined inextricably” with charges he defrauded FTX customers, US District Judge said.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had initially charged Bankman-Fried, 31, with conspiring to break US campaign finance laws.
But they later dropped that charge after the Bahamas, where Bankman-Fried was arrested in December, said they never intended to extradite him on it. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had initially charged Sam Bankman-Fried, 31, with conspiring to break US campaign finance laws.Evidence of SBF’s political donations were “intertwined inextricably” with charges he defrauded FTX customers by stealing billions of dollars in their deposits, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said.
“Evidence that the defendant spent FTX customer funds on political contributions is direct evidence of the wire fraud scheme because it is relevant to establishing the defendant’s motive and allegedly fraudulent intent,” Kaplan wrote.
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