A U.S. judge said on Wednesday he would consider delaying Sam Bankman-Fried's Oct. 3 criminal fraud trial, after the jailed FTX founder's lawyers complained he did not have enough time to review millions of pages of evidence to help build his case.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan raised the prospect of a five-month delay at a virtual hearing, after defense lawyers said officials at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention CenterBankman-Fried, 31, has pleaded not guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the November 2022 collapse of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange.him on Aug.
The judge said he was unlikely to delay the trial based solely on the volume of evidence, and the defense would need to demonstrate a "genuine and unanticipated need."March 11, 2024, trial on charges brought after Bankman-Fried's December 2022 extradition from the Bahamas, including bank fraud and foreign bribery conspiracies.
Kaplan earlier rejected a defense request to bar prosecutors from using at trial approximately 4 million pages of documents stored on Google that the prosecutors turned over last week. While prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan turned over the materials only recently because Google delayed in responding to a subpoena, Kaplan said the majority came from Bankman-Fried's personal Google account, meaning he had access before his bail was revoked.
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