Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of FTX, was denied his request to acquire paperwork from a Silicon Valley regulation agency, Fenwick & West LLP, as a part of his protection technique in his ongoing federal fraud case, Bloomberg reported. Bankman-Fried had hoped to make use of these paperwork to help his declare that he relied on authorized recommendation whereas participating within the actions for which he’s at present being prosecuted.
In a current growth, the Bankman-Fried authorized workforce approached the decide dealing with the case, urging the prosecution to show over the paperwork obtained from Fenwick & West or enable them to be obtained immediately via a subpoena. Nevertheless, U.S. District Choose Lewis Kaplan denied the request, calling it a “fishing expedition” that may not be warranted.
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