{"id":80860,"date":"2023-06-28T09:32:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T06:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=80860"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:33:09","slug":"judge-denies-motion-to-dismiss-most-charges-against-sbf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/judge-denies-motion-to-dismiss-most-charges-against-sbf\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Most Charges Against SBF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge denied the motion to dismiss most of the charges brought against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/236735\/judge-denies-motion-to-dismiss-most-charges-against-sam-bankman-fried\"> The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Defense<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-seeks-dismissal-of-part-of-the-charges\"> filed<\/a> the corresponding motion in May 2023. The lawyers asked to dismiss almost all counts, except for the conspiracy to commit securities fraud, commodities fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>The motion argued that several counts duplicate or relate to a single count. Some counts, according to the defense, appeared after SBF&#8217;s extradition to the United States. In total, they filed seven motions. <\/p>\n<p>The judge denied the motions, calling them &#8220;controversial or unfounded&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice charged the FTX founder with eight counts. He <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bahamas-authorities-arrest-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried\">was arrested in the Bahamas<\/a> and extradited to the United States, where he was released on <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/court-grants-250m-bail-for-sam-bankman-fried\">$250 million bail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-charged-with-conspiracy-to-commit-bank-fraud\">increased the number of charges<\/a> against Bankman-Fried to 12, and in March \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-accused-of-bribing-a-chinese-official\">to 13<\/a>. He <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-refuses-to-plead-guilty-trial-set-for-october\">pleaded not guilty<\/a> to none of the counts, including <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/reuters-bankman-fried-pleads-not-guilty-to-bribery-of-chinese-official\">bribing a Chinese official<\/a>. The trial was scheduled for October 2, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge denied the motion to dismiss most charges against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80861,"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-80860","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":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80860","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=80860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80862,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80860\/revisions\/80862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}