The criminal trial of former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried is currently underway in New York, and his legal team has filed motions aiming to ban testimony from users and investors in the exchange.
In separate Oct. 2 filings in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, SBF’s lawyers opposed pretrial motions from prosecutors requesting FTX customers and investors testify regarding how they believed the cryptocurrency exchange would handle assets. They also sought to block the testimony of a former FTX user — an unnamed Ukrainian national — using a “live two-way video,” partly on Sixth Amendment grounds.