By Luc Cohen<br> NEW YORK, 코인캐치 March 30 (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to new U.S.
charges of conspiring to violate campaign finance laws and bribe Chinese authorities.<br> The 31-year-old Bankman-Fried entered his plea to a new, 13-count indictment through his lawyer, Mark Cohen, at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan federal court.<br> Bankman-Fried previously pleaded not guilty to eight counts of fraud and conspiracy for allegedly stealing billions in FTX customer funds to plug losses at his hedge fund, Alameda Research.<br> The former billionaire could spend decades in prison if convicted at a trial set to start on Oct.

2.<br> Bankman-Fried was arrested in December and extradited from the Bahamas, where FTX was based.<br> The exchange collapsed in November after a flurry of customer withdrawals spurred by concerns about commingling of funds between FTX and Alameda.<br> In an unusual post-arrest blog post, 비트코인 거래소 Bankman-Fried admitted that FTX had inadequate risk management but said he did not steal fund<br>p> Cohen said he planned to challenge by a May 8 deadline the campaign finance and China-related charges because they were brought after Bankman-Fried’s extraditio<br>p> Under an extradition treaty between the United States and the Bahamas, 코인캐치 Bankman-Fried may only be tried and 비트코인 거래소 punished for charges he faced at the time of his extradition, unless the Bahamas government consents to the new char<br> Representatives of the U.S.

Attorney’s office in Manhattan and the Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs had no immediate comm<br> Bankman-Fried’s original indictment contained few details about his alleged sch<br> A 12-count indictment filed in late February elaborated on the fraud charges, and accused Bankman-Fried of illegally contributing tens of millions of dollars to U.S.

political campaigns through straw donors, to buy influence in Washing<br> On Tuesday, yet another indictment accused Bankman-Fried of orchestrating a $40 million bribe to Chinese authorities to regain access to $1 billion of cryptocurrency in frozen Alameda accou<br> Three former members of Bankman-Fried’s inner circle – former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, former FTX technology chief Zixao “Gary” Wang, and former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh – have all pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecut<br> Apart from his court appearances, Bankman-Fried is confined to his parents’ Palo Alto, California, home as a condition of his $250 million bail pack<br> Kaplan on Tuesday approved bail modifications designed to prevent Bankman-Fried from tampering with witnes<br> (Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Additional reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Daniel Wal<br>