Sam Bankman-Fried is anticipated to enter a plea on January 3, 2022, to felony prices, together with conspiracy to commit cash laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud on prospects and lenders.
The trial for the FTX founder is scheduled to start on the afternoon of January 3, in Manhattan federal courtroom, earlier than U.S. District Decide Lewis Kaplan.
In response to prosecutors, Bankman-Fried used buyer deposits to fund his Alameda Analysis hedge fund agency, buy actual property, and make political contributions for years. As well as, SBF borrowed $546M from Alameda to fund the acquisition of Robinhood shares, based on an affidavit filed within the Antigua and Barbuda Excessive Court docket on Dec. 12.
Whereas two of his associates, former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and former FTX CTO Gary Wang, have pleaded responsible to their position within the firm’s collapse, the FTX founder has but to take action.
Bankman-Fried was launched on a document $250 million bail bond on Dec. 22 after he was extradited from the Bahamas. He was ordered to stick with his mother and father in Palo Alto, beneath digital monitoring.
