Sam Bankman-Fried’s political donations can be surfaced in trial, rules judge

District attorneys from the United States Department of Justice will be enabled to emerge the details of Sam Bankman-Frieds political contributions as the evidence is straight relevant to his fraud charges, ruled U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan.The choice was part of a series of judgments made by Kaplan in a 16-page pretrial order on Sept. 26, where he cleared up which proof would be permissible in court during the FTX founders scams trial, presently arranged to start on Oct. 3. “Evidence that the accused invested FTX customer funds on political contributions is direct evidence of the wire scams scheme because it is relevant to developing the offenders motive and allegedly fraudulent intent.”In addition to permitting discussion of Bankman-Frieds campaign contributions, Kaplan also approved the prosecutions motion to bring forward proof that information Bankman-Frieds alleged function in the production of the FTX Token (FTT), and the ways in which he apparently directed Alameda Research and its then-CEO Caroline Ellison to manipulate the price of the token.