After
SBF Got 25
Years Salame
Got 90 Months
Now US Files
about Thai
Prostitutes
& China
by
Matthew Russell Lee
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 5 – On the US v Sam
Bankman-Fried trial, hours
after the guilty verdict, a
book was published: "Crypto
Criminal: The Conviction of
Sam Bankman-Fried: As live
tweeted and investigated from
inside the SDNY courthouse by
Matthew Russell Lee,"
audio/book here.
On March
28, 2024, Inner City Press
live tweeted his sentencing,
to 25 years.
On May 28
Salame was
"sentenced to
90 months."
On
August 21,
Salame filed
that "the
Government
used the plea
negotiations
to threaten
Salame’s
domestic
partner and
the mother of
his child,
Michelle Bond."
Full filing
on Patreon here.
On
August 22,
after Inner City
Press published
a curtain
raiser on
Michelle Bond
being
presented in
SDNY Mag
court, this: "the
unsealing of
an Indictment
today charging
MICHELLE BOND.
On
August 29,
Saleme
purported to
withdraw
his motion.
Filing on
Patreon here.
But
Judge Kaplan reiterated
that papers
and appearance
are required.
On September 5
the US Attorney's
Office
opposed, and
submitted notes from
talks with
Salame's
lawyers,
including
"charged FCPA
Chinese
bribery
scheme. You
previously
said RS was
generally
aware that an
account on a
Chinese
exchange was
frozen and
FTX/Alameda
made a payment
of $50M. We
have evidence
that RS was
involved in
efforts to
unfreeze the
accounts,
including by
opening crypto
accounts to
enable
self-trading.
Our
understanding
is that he
used the PII
of people he
identified as
Thai
prostitutes to
open the
accounts." Document on
Patreon here.
More on X for
Subscribers
here, Substack here
This
case is US v.
Bond,
24-cr-494 (Daniels)
We'll have more
on this.
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