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Matthew Russell Lee / ICP
Nov 04, 2025
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 4 – James Peraire-Bueno was indicted for “conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The charges in the Indictment arise from an alleged novel scheme by the defendants to exploit the very integrity of the Ethereum blockchain to fraudulently obtain approximately $25 million worth of cryptocurrency within approximately 12 seconds.”

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On October 14, Inner City Press live tweeted jury selection, here.

Late on October 14, the defendants opposed Miller: Filing on Patreon here

On November 3 the defense rested, with expert witness Falk saying of the Government’s theory, that’s not how Ethereum (and the MEV pool work.

On November 4, Inner City Press live tweeted the closing arguments, past 5 pm, thread

The defense said the prosecutors are looking at things through dirty windows, seeing only dirt


While Amazon took down Inner City Press’ books on SBF, Do Kwon, Roman Storm and more from October 24 to October 30, this interim book was put on Google Play here

Court art courtesy to Inner City Press by Elizabeth Williams below

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