Sam Bankman-Fried to Get Bahamian Court Review of Latest US Charges
- Bahamian judge blocks nation’s AG from approving new charges
- US added bribery, campaign finance charges after extradition
Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at court in New York on March 30.
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Sam Bankman-Fried won a Bahamian court order temporarily blocking that nation’s government from consenting to charges that were added to his US indictment after the FTX co-founder’s December extradition to New York.
Bankman-Fried has argued in Manhattan federal court that bribery, campaign finance and other counts added in March and February must be dismissed because they were not included in his agreement to return from the Bahamas to face US charges. New York federal prosecutors have said they can proceed with the new charges with the Bahamian attorney general’s consent, but Bankman-Fried moved to block that with a separate action filed there.