Extra: In Trial for Taking $25M from Eth Sandwich Jury Poses 6 Questions and a Hypothetical - more here, The Ringer
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 5 – 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 the evening of November 3 the defense put in a filing, on Patreon here
On November 5 the jury deliberated all day, sent out first four questions - it took hours for the parties to agree to answer to them - then at the end of the day, a hypothetical
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
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