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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/molly0xfff/statuses/113092300474134836">Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 15:11:41 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" title="molly0xfff@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/34789-48-20230824095227.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Molly White" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Molly White</a><div><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113092254277262256" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>New filings in the FTX case, made after executive Ryan Salame pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 7.5 years, raise the possibility that something weird happened with respect to promises about an investigation into his partner, Michelle Bond.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CitationNeeded" rel="tag">#CitationNeeded</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/crypto" rel="tag">#crypto</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cryptocurrency" rel="tag">#cryptocurrency</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3627947#notice-7112335">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-09-07T15:11:41+09:00" title="Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 15:11:41 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113092300474134836" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113092300474134836">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3134411">The government then filed their full response, reiterating their earlier descriptions of conversations between the prosecution team and Salame’s then legal team, and also raising some procedural objections to the petition. This time they attached copies of contemporaneous notes that — assuming they are accurate summaries of the conversationsb — seem to support their assertions that they were extremely clear to Salame’s former attorneys that Salame’s plea would not impact the status of Bond’s investigation. However, other notes put some doubt in my mind as to whether Salame’s lawyers actually heard what they were saying, and whether those lawyers properly communicated this to him. One email chain shows his legal team expressing surprise this spring over ongoing investigations into Bond, as though they didn’t recall the earlier conversation.Email from Salame’s lawyers to the Bond’s prosecution team in April:
Sheb,
Thank you for the introduction. We are surprised to hear from you given our course of dealing with the FTX prosecution team, which led us to believe that this matter was not going to be pursued.
Best regards, GinaPortion of a reply by Salame’s lawyers to Bond’s prosecution team:
On another note, to answer the question posed in your earlier-in-time email, we have reviewed our notes, and they do not reflect the statement that you recounted to us on our prior call, nor do they reflect the statement that you made below about a disposition with Mr. Salame not resolving</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/092/290/576/366/600/original/d0bf3417e1f958ba.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/092/290/576/366/600/original/d0bf3417e1f958ba.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3134412">And to be clear, these were not budget bin, amateur hour lawyers. At the time, he was being represented by two ex-DOJ lawyers working for the white-shoe law firm Mayer Brown: Jason Linder and Gina Parlovecchio.It seems to me that there are three possibilities here:Salame is falsely claiming that prosecutors improperly induced him to plead guilty, and that promises about Bond never happened
Salame’s former team of bigshot lawyers royally screwed up by leading Salame to believe that Bond’s investigation would be terminated if he pleaded guilty even though the government had expressly told them it would not
Some of the most powerful prosecutors in the country did, in fact, make these verbal promises to Salame, but simultaneously laid a paper trail reflecting the exact opposite, and are now lying about it under penalty of perjury
The prosecutors’ argument currently lies somewhere between options 1 and 2. They maintain that such a promise was never made, and argue that the petition should be denied outright, suggesting option 1. However, their inclusion of the emails from Parlovecchio, and their request that if Kaplan does hold a hearing, that he also examine Salame’s attorney–client communications, tips things into option 2 territory somewhat.It’s not clear to me yet which of options 2 or 3 Salame is going to argue. Given the emails from Parlovecchio, it definitely seems like it might be appropriate to dig into those attorney—client communications to get the other side of</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/092/290/659/705/523/original/bb8895314dcb3ab3.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/092/290/659/705/523/original/bb8895314dcb3ab3.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3134413">story, particularly from such qualified lawyers, but perhaps they’re playing 3D chess. Who really knows what’s happening, at this stage, but that email from his former lawyer definitely makes me more inclined to give him some benefit of the doubt.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/092/299/816/577/892/original/2c40a2b931fe6bc5.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/092/299/816/577/892/original/2c40a2b931fe6bc5.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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New filings in the FTX case, made after executive Ryan Salame pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 7.5 years, raise the possibility that something weird happened with respect to promises about an investigation into his partner, Michelle Bond.
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