Юристы SBF призывают заблокировать освобождение поручителей под залог
- Юристы, представляющие SBF, обратились с просьбой заблокировать имена двух поручителей, подписавшихся в качестве поручителей по залогу $250M.
- Имена не будут разглашаться как минимум до 14 февраля, чтобы можно было подать заявку на дальнейшее пребывание.
- 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.”
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 обращаться to block the release of the guarantors’ names last-minute on Feb. 7.
Хотя апелляция не содержала подробностей или аргументов в отношении того, почему имена двух поручителей не должны быть обнародованы, можно подтвердить, что личности останутся нераскрытыми как минимум до 14 февраля, чтобы можно было подать заявку на получение дальнейшее пребывание. Ожидалось, что апелляция поступит от юристов SBF после того, как окружной судья Соединенных Штатов Льюис Каплан удовлетворил ходатайство нескольких средств массовой информации о раскрытии личности поручителей.
12 января письмо, 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.
Также фактом является то, что руководство FTX отправил сообщение всем политикам 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 подал заявление о банкротстве и в настоящее время владеет более чем 55 миллионами акций Robinhood на сумму около $600 миллионов.