{"id":72027,"date":"2022-12-28T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T09:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72027"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:28:30","slug":"new-judge-appointed-in-sam-bankman-fried-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/new-judge-appointed-in-sam-bankman-fried-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New judge appointed in Sam Bankman-Fried case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The criminal case of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been transferred to a new U.S. judge, Lewis Kaplan. Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment followed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/caroline-ellison-admits-deliberate-misrepresentation-to-alameda-creditors-about-the-exchanges-loan-amount\">the self-recusal of the former judge<\/a> Ronnie Abrams of the Southern District of New York over a potential conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>At a December 19 hearing, she said that the law firm Davis Polk &#038; Wardwell, in which her husband is a partner, advised FTX in 2021. It is unclear why Abrams did not disclose the recusal earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Kaplan has presided over cases involving former U.S. President Donald Trump, Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey, and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.<\/p>\n<p>On November 11, the FTX Group <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-group-files-for-bankruptcy-sam-bankman-fried-resigns-as-ceo\">filed for bankruptcy<\/a> under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. SBF stepped down as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bahamas-authorities-arrest-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried\">the arrested<\/a> in the Bahamas Bankman-Fried <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-sam-bankman-fried-agrees-to-extradition-to-the-united-states\">agreed to extradition<\/a> to the United States, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/court-grants-250m-bail-for-sam-bankman-fried\">was released on bail<\/a> in the amount of $250 million.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The criminal case of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been transferred to a new U.S. judge, Lewis Kaplan, after the former judge Ronnie Abrams recused herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1236,1403],"class_list":["post-72027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-ftx","tag-sam-bankman-fried"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72029,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72027\/revisions\/72029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}