Judge will consider whether to try Sam Bankman-Fried separately for superseding charges: Report By Cointelegraph

A United States federal judge is reportedly weighing a proposal to split former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) criminal charges into two trials following a filing from prosecutors.

According to a June 15 report from The Wall Street Journal, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the District Court for the Southern District of New York was considering whether to dismiss or separate charges in Bankman-Fried’s criminal case after an “imaginative” argument from the former FTX CEO’s legal team. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers filed a motion that argued he should not face charges that had not been included in the extradition papers from the Bahamas to the U.S. in 2022.