Sam Bankman-Fried, former FTX CEO, has reportedly reconsidered his earlier determination to contest extradition and is predicted to seem in courtroom within the Bahamas on Dec. 19 to hunt a reversal, Reuters reported on Dec. 17 citing an individual aware of the matter.
By consenting to extradition, Bankman-Fried would be capable to seem in a United States courtroom. He faces fees of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on clients and lenders, securities fraud, commodities fraud, cash laundering and conspiracy to defraud the US and violate the marketing campaign finance regulation.
The transfer follows the Bankman-Fried’s bail denial on Dec. 13 as a result of “threat of flight”. The previous CEO’s legal professionals argued that SBF doesn’t possess a prison file and was affected by despair and insomnia. A second utility for bail was reportedly filed within the Bahamas Supreme Courtroom on Dec. 15.
If convicted, Bankman-Fried might get 115 years in jail. Nonetheless, there’s a “lot to play out” within the case till he will get a last sentence inside the subsequent few months and even years, authorized commentators instructed Cointelegraph.
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A former federal prosecutor, Mark Cohen, has been employed by the previous FTX CEO to behave as his protection legal professional. As reported by Cointelegraph, Cohen is the co-founder of the regulation agency Cohen & Gresser, and was a member of the protection group in Ghislaine Maxwell’s high-profile baby trafficking case.
Bankman-Fried is being held in Fox Hill Jail, the one jail within the Bahamas. In accordance with a US State Division report launched in 2021, Fox Hill situations have been “harsh” and overcrowded, with poor sanitation and diet. Detainees have been alleged to have been bodily abused by correctional officers.
Ex-CEO of Alameda Analysis, a sister firm of FTX, Caroline Ellison, has additionally fashioned a protection group. Stephanie Avakian, a former high crypto regulator with the US Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) will characterize Ellison in an ongoing federal probe. Avakain is at present chair of the Securities and Monetary Providers on the regulation agency WilmerHale. In her function on the SEC, she expanded cryptocurrency oversight on the Enforcement Division.
