SBF hoarded too much data for the FBI to handle

The laptop computer of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried holds a lot knowledge that the FBI is struggling to investigate it, based on experiences from Enterprise Insider on March 30.

Prosecutors overburdened by laptop computer knowledge

The FBI is having issue with the laptop computer’s contents, based on statements made by Assistant US Legal professional Nicholas Roos on the U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ).

It reportedly takes weeks for prosecutors to retrieve Bankman-Fried’s Slack messages. It takes longer to acquire different knowledge, and brokers should divide the contents of the laptop computer into separate components as a result of sheer quantity of information on the pc.

Consequently, the Division of Justice has up to now been unable to start a privilege evaluation — that’s, a evaluation by people who should not engaged on the case. This course of determines whether or not sure data can be utilized within the case in opposition to Bankman-Fried.

Bankman-Fried’s legal professional reportedly expressed issues about how prosecutors would deal with the info on the laptop computer. Nonetheless, the legal professional’s issues are mentioned to be associated to the potential for a cooperating witness who might testify to advance the federal government’s case — not strictly whether or not the DOJ will be capable of kind via the laptop computer’s knowledge totally.

The report from Enterprise Insider additionally signifies that prosecutors have supplied over 6 million pages of discovery materials associated to the case up to now.

SBF court docket proceedings proceed

It’s unclear whether or not the DOJ and FBI’s difficulties are solely as a result of quantity of information, or whether or not their points are associated to encryption and privateness as nicely.

Though Bankman-Fried’s obvious data-hoarding habits haven’t beforehand been mentioned, his tendency to make use of secret and auto-deleting messaging apps beforehand grew to become a problem throughout his case. He now faces restrictions on his use of these apps.

Bankman-Fried’s fundamental trial will happen in October, however court docket proceedings are at present ongoing. Bankman-Fried just lately pleaded not responsible to 13 federal indictments. Earlier, he was charged with violating anti-bribery legal guidelines associated to China.

Bankman-Fried faces as much as 115 years in jail for his position in FTX’s wrongdoing, although it isn’t assured that he’ll face that full sentence even when convicted.