The Bahamas government informed U.S. authorities that the campaign finance charges were not part of the agreement between the two nations over Bankman-Fried’s extradition from the island nation.
filing late Wednesday
, the DOJ informed New York federal judge Lewis Kaplan that the government had been earlier in the day that the Bahamas “did not intend to extradite the defendant on the campaign contributions count.” In adherence with the government’s “treaty obligations” to the Bahamas, the DOJ informed Kaplan it “does not intend to proceed to trial on the campaign contributions count.”the former crypto billionaire after prosecutors accused him of leaking former girlfriend and business partner Caroline Ellison’s personal writings to theThis is not the first instance where the terms of Bankman-Fried’s extradition treaty have impacted the charges brought against him.
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