On FTX
Bankman Fried
As October
Trial Set Net
Access Without
Monitoring
Proposed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 17 –
Sam
Bankman-Fried
of FTX was
indicted in
the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York,
leading to his
arrest in the
Bahamas on
December 12, and
extradition to
the US on
December 21.
On
February 28,
with
Bankman-Fried free
on bond, FTX's
Nishad Singh pleaded
guilty to six
criminal
charges. Inner
City Press put the
charging document
on its DocumentCloud
here.
On
March 1,
Bankman-Fried's
lawyers and
the SDNY
prosecutors -
together -
proposed to
Judge Kaplan
two candidates
as his
technical
expert: Edward
Stroz
($695/hr) and
Michael
McGowan
($650/hr). We'll
have more on
this - for
now, more on
Substack here
On
March 3, the
US Attorney's
Office which
chose to give
Bankman-Fried
freedom on bond
then declined
to seek remand proposed
to Judge
Kaplan
conditions: "The
parties agree
that the
following
websites would
be whitelisted
through the
law firm VPN."Full
letter on
Patreon here.
On
March 8,
Bankman-Fried's
lawyer went
further on VPN
use,
saying the US
has no objection,
and adding "laptop
computers
belonging to
two other
former
FTX/Alameda
employees."
Full letter on
Patreon here.
Who are these
other two?
On
March 10,
Judge Kaplan
held his
proceeding. Inner
City Press was
there and
live tweeted,
thread here:
More with
analysis on Substack
here
On
March 17,
after 8 pm, SBF's
lawyer's sent
in their
proposal to
Judge Kaplan,
including "Mr.
Bankman-Fried
may use the
Laptop only to
query, review,
and analyze
the data in
the AWS
Database, and
share those
results with
his counsel
and others on
the defense
team. 4. For
those
purposes, the
Laptop will be
installed with
the Microsoft
11 operating
system and its
associated
programs and
will be loaded
only with the
following
additional
applications
and programs:
a. AWS VPN
client (to
access the AWS
Database); b.
pgAdmin
(PostgreSQL
tool to query
the AWS
Database); c.
Microsoft
Office,
including
Microsoft
Word, Excel,
and Access (to
create
documents and
analyze data);
d. Adobe
Acrobat Reader
(to read
documents in
.pdf format);
e. 7zip (to
create zip
files to
transfer large
files); f.
Google Chrome
(to send files
to the defense
team via Mr.
Bankman-Fried’s
Gmail account
or via the
Cohen &
Gresser
ShareFile
site); and g.
A remote
access support
tool (for
remote support
by Cohen &
Gresser). 5.
If requested,
Cohen &
Gresser will
provide the
Government
with
device-specific
identifying
information
for the
Laptop.
Because the
Laptop will be
controlled by
Cohen &
Gresser and a
Cohen &
Gresser
attorney or
paralegal will
be with Mr.
Bankman-Fried
while he uses
the Laptop,
the Laptop
will not be
loaded with
monitoring
software or
software that
restricts his
access to the
Internet."
Full letter on
Patreon here.
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