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Jacob Shamsian

@jayshams
26 posts
2024-09-15
As expected, SBF's lawyers say the trial judge should have allowed more evidence about victim losses, that he screwed up the parameters of his testimony, and that he should have been able to use an advice-of-counsel defense. They ask for a new judge. [image]
2024-09-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias

and never changed his mind— was Michael Lewis. Jacob Shamsian / @jayshams : truly I don't really understand why advice-of-counsel was excluded. because the lawyers were fooled by S...

truly I don't really understand why advice-of-counsel was excluded. because the lawyers were fooled by SBF? seems like a q for the jury, no? [image]
2024-09-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias

and never changed his mind— was Michael Lewis. Jacob Shamsian / @jayshams : truly I don't really understand why advice-of-counsel was excluded. because the lawyers were fooled by S...

the idea that the US Attorney's office in SDNY outsourced its investigation into Sullivan & Cromwell and then violated its Brady obligations by not getting all the S&C material to the defense — fascinating. I wanna read a Matt Levine column about that.
2024-09-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias

and never changed his mind— was Michael Lewis. Jacob Shamsian / @jayshams : truly I don't really understand why advice-of-counsel was excluded. because the lawyers were fooled by S...

It does seem like SBF's lawyers are conveniently skipping over what happened to crypto prices after November 2022.... [image]
2024-09-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias

and never changed his mind— was Michael Lewis. Jacob Shamsian / @jayshams : truly I don't really understand why advice-of-counsel was excluded. because the lawyers were fooled by S...

2024-09-14
It does seem like SBF's lawyers are conveniently skipping over what happened to crypto prices after November 2022.... [image]
2024-09-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias

Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.

As expected, SBF's lawyers say the trial judge should have allowed more evidence about victim losses, that he screwed up the parameters of his testimony, and that he should have been able to use an advice-of-counsel defense. They ask for a new judge. [image]
2024-09-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias

Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.

truly I don't really understand why advice-of-counsel was excluded. because the lawyers were fooled by SBF? seems like a q for the jury, no? [image]
2024-09-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias

Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.

the idea that the US Attorney's office in SDNY outsourced its investigation into Sullivan & Cromwell and then violated its Brady obligations by not getting all the S&C material to the defense — fascinating. I wanna read a Matt Levine column about that.
2024-09-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias

Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.

2024-08-23
NEW: SDNY prosecutors have brought criminal campaign finance charges against Michelle Bond, a former GOP candidate for Congress on Long Island. Bond is in a relationship with ex-FTX exec Ryan Salame, who DOJ says funneled illegal money to her campaign. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... [image]
2024-08-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Ex-FTX exec Ryan Salame's romantic partner is charged with campaign finance violations, a day after he said the US reneged on his plea deal by investigating her

Bloomberg :

2024-05-29
In other news, Ryan Salame was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison. He was the only big FTX co-conspirator who didn't get a cooperation deal to testify against Sam Bankman-Fried, who got 25 years. Caroline Ellison, Nashad Singh, and Gary Wang are still awaiting sentencing.
2024-05-29 View on X
The Block

A US judge sentences former FTX executive Ryan Salame to 7.5 years after he pled guilty to criminal charges over political contributions and more in 2023

But He Can Keep His Porsche X: Ryan Salame / @rsalame7926 : @eigenfxn ... I didn't steal shit, the government and all the cooperating witnesses said I didn't. Ryan Salame / @rsalam...

2023-11-10
RIP Omegle.  A project that demonstrated the potential of the internet.  An amoral instrument of infinite reach.  Of the illumination brought upon by new knowledge.  Of corruption by porn. https://www.omegle.com/
2023-11-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Omegle, a service founded in 2009 for chatting with strangers, shuts down; founder Leif K-Brooks blames rising misuse, including in committing “heinous crimes”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Katie Notopoulos / Insider : Omegle was a relic of the old internet. I'm no...

2023-10-27
This exchange between a prosecutor and Sam Bankman-Fried... https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... [image]
2023-10-27 View on X
Financial Times

In a testimony without the jury present, SBF says he followed the counsel of lawyers to make critical decisions around passing FTX customer money to Alameda

Former crypto billionaire blames lawyers as court hears first snippets of testimony without jury present

2023-10-17
incredible day at the SBF trial. NISHAD SINGH: Sam, I don't know if I can do this. Every day of keeping this fraud a secret tears up my insides. We need to sell all our assets to make customers whole. SBF: thjinking about givinng michael jordan $100mil. u think ok?>
2023-10-17 View on X
New York Times

US v. SBF: Nishad Singh says SBF used customer funds for spending sprees that “reeked of excess” and he learned of an $8B hole two months before FTX collapsed

before it all crashed Luc Cohen / Reuters : Sam Bankman-Fried directed political donations despite $13 bln ‘hole’, ex-colleague testified Michael Grullon / Watcher Guru : FTX Trial...

incredible day at the SBF trial. NISHAD SINGH: Sam, I don't know if I can do this. Every day of keeping this fraud a secret tears up my insides. We need to sell all our assets to make customers whole. SBF: thjinking about givinng michael jordan $100mil. u think ok?>
2023-10-17 View on X
CoinDesk

The FTX estate floats an amended proposal to return up to 90% of creditor holdings, divided into three pools, and plans to formally file the plan by December 16

An amended proposal released early Tuesday will be filed by the FTX Debtors by mid-December if approved.

2023-03-16
Steve Bannon's BFF Guo Wengui was arrested. SDNY alleges a $1 billion fraud conspiracy. https://www.justice.gov/...
2023-03-16 View on X
Reuters

The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of $1B+, including $262M through a crypto “ecosystem”

2023-02-07
“people on dark-web forums discuss how Twitter remains a platform where they can easily find the material while avoiding detection” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-02-07 View on X
New York Times

Tests show CSAM still spreads and gets recommended on Twitter, including known material that's easier to detect; one video had 122K+ views in just over a month

2022-07-28
The products all seem pretty bloated so maybe they should focus on being a smaller company https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-07-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook …

2022-02-03
My colleagues at Insider have been doing great work on how the shift to the Metaverse has been roiling tech companies. Rank-and-file employees at Microsoft and Facebook don't understand why the industry is pivoting, and it's a mess. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2022-02-03 View on X
OnMSFT.com

Report: Microsoft scrapped plans for a HoloLens 3 in 2021, shifting instead to a mixed reality device with Samsung and leaving the HoloLens team “inflamed”

Microsoft turned heads when it first introduced HoloLens, and it even launched a second generation of the mixed reality headset … Source: Insider .

2021-11-29
Really weird to see an article about the CIA reckoning with this *now*, as opposed to, say, 12 years ago https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-11-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at the challenges spies face with biometrics, smartphones, and surveillance cameras, and how AI sifting through data changes espionage

U.S., rivals seek ways to adapt spycraft to a changing world; being on the grid can blow your cover, but so can staying off

2021-08-18
this essay is making me change my mind about things, which i think means it's disinfo https://harpers.org/...
2021-08-18 View on X
Harper's

A look at the focus on disinformation by media, tech, and academic leaders, and how assumptions about disinfo effectiveness echo old media and advertising myths

In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good.  Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours … Tweets: @karlbode , @karlbode , @daveyalba , @daphn...