Court rules on admissibility of evidence in Sam Bankman-Fried’s upcoming criminal trial

In a Sept. 26 filing, Judge Lewis Kaplan, presiding over the criminal case against Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, issued rulings on the admissibility of certain types of evidence in his forthcoming criminal trial.

Judge Kaplan began by ruling that government prosecutors are permitted to introduce direct evidence of Bankman-Fried’s alleged crimes.