Judge rules on multiple pretrial motions in SBF case

Odaily News Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversees SBFs criminal case, resolved most of the pending restraint or pretrial motions in a 16-page order, ruling that SBF attorneys can question Justice Department witnesses during next months fraud trial about their use of entertainment. The sex drug problem. In addition, the judge rejected the Justice Department’s motion to prevent the defense team from questioning witnesses on privilege issues, and rejected the SBF team’s motion to suppress evidence related to the FTX bankruptcy; the judge allowed the Justice Department to present evidence showing that SBF not only created FTT tokens, Alameda was also instructed to hold large amounts of FTT and support market manipulation of the token. (CoinDesk)