Prosecutor's office rejects Bankman-Fried's lawyers' complaints about excessive evidence
Date: 2023-08-29 Author: Karina Ziganova Categories: BUSINESS, IN WORLD
In an Aug. 29 decision, the U.S. Attorney's Office responded to complaints from defendants Sam Bankman-Freed and his legal team.
However, Bankman-Fried and his colleagues had previously opposed the government's decision to release large amounts of material in the weeks leading up to the trial.
Lawyers for Bankman-Fried noted that the government provided about 7.7 million pages of material in the days leading up to Aug. 28 in its recent filing dated that day. The lawyers complained that their client could not get acquainted with these documents due to his imprisonment and other factors related to all this.
But prosecutors argue that these complaints are "distorted". According to the prosecutors themselves, they delayed the release of 4 million pages due to production problems at Google. But they said that Bankman-Freed had been able to view those papers in preparation for the defense for a number of months because the materials were taken from his personal Google accounts.
Bankman-Freed claimed he was looking for evidence to participate in witness tampering. Prosecutors added: "He identified documents from his Google accounts that he believes would discredit a government witness and provided them to a popular publication."
It follows that this comment is relevant to Bankman-Fried's revelations about former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison. Should act as the main witness. An article about Ellison based on information from Bankman-Fried was published in July by the New York Times.
Additional discovery materials are also duplicates
According to the prosecutors, the 3.7 million pages of the discovery are duplicate documents and do not add to the material of the finds. They argued that these papers were only intended to notify Bankman-Fried of the documents to be included in the forthcoming disclosure. And they insisted: “brandman fried and his team of lawyers “literally recount the materials about the discovery twice.
In previous court filings, Bankman-Fried's lawyers have argued that the government should be barred from presenting evidence after July 1, 2023. In the latest application, the government decided to indicate that it would be against this request.
