Los abogados de SBF apelan para bloquear la liberación de los garantes de la fianza

• Los abogados que representan a SBF han pedido que se bloqueen los nombres de los dos garantes que firmaron como garantes de la fianza $250M.
• Las identidades permanecerán sin revelarse hasta al menos el 14 de febrero para permitir una solicitud para una nueva suspensión.
• The Associated Press, CNBC, Dow Jones, Insider, and the Washington Post, filed a petition to make the guarantor’s name public.
• Media outlets said that “the public’s right to know Bankman-Fried’s guarantors outweighed their privacy and safety rights.” 

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The lawyers representing the founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF in the crypto space, have appealed with the court to block the names of the two guarantors who signed off as guarantors on Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bail bond, which allows him to stay at his parent’s home in Palo Alto. 

Multiple media outlets recently filed a motion to reveal the two guarantors of SBF’s $250 million bail bond, but it seems that the court has yet to decide whether to move forward with the decision or not. Interestingly, the identity of these guarantors will remain secret for now; Bankman Fried’s lawyers filed an apelar to block the release of the guarantors’ names last-minute on Feb. 7. 

Si bien la apelación no contenía los detalles o argumentos de por qué los nombres de los dos garantes no deben hacerse públicos, se puede confirmar que las identidades permanecerán sin revelar hasta al menos el 14 de febrero para permitir una solicitud de un más estancia. Se esperaba que la apelación llegara de los abogados de SBF luego de que el juez de distrito de los Estados Unidos, Lewis Kaplan, concediera una petición de varios medios de comunicación para revelar la identidad de los garantes. 

En un 12 de enero carta, the lawyers from Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, representing the Associated Press, CNBC, Dow Jones, Insider, and the Washington Post, argued that “the public’s right to know Bankman-Fried’s guarantors outweighed their privacy and safety rights.” 

On the other hand, the lawyers representing SBF stated that if the names were made public, their lives might come under threat. Kaplan noted that he had “no reason” to doubt threats had occurred but was yet to see “evidence to that effect.”

Along with the two unknown guarantors, SBF’s parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, also signed the bail bond and put up their house to guarantee the FTX founder’s bail. Interestingly, when the crypto entrepreneur was arrested in the Bahamas, he wasn’t granted bail until he was extradited to the US and pleaded not guilty to all the charges imposed on him by the US authorities. 

It is also crucial to note that on Feb. 7, Kaplan also rejected the joint petition between Bankman-Fried’s legal team and prosecutors that would allow SBF to have access to certain messaging applications. While the US District Judge did not give a reason for doing so, he stated that more will be discussed on the same in a Feb. 9 court hearing. 

También es un hecho que la gestión de FTX ha envió un mensaje a todos los políticos and political groups to return the donations that were made by the company’s former executives. Interestingly, SBF was the second-largest “CEO contributor” to President Joe Biden’s campaign and donated close to $5.2 million. Additionally, Bankman-Fried’s holding company, Emergent Fidelity Technologies, has also declarado en bancarrota y actualmente posee más de 55 millones de acciones de Robinhood, que valen cerca de $600 millones.

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