Cross of SDNY witness Sebade
Defense lawyer Trefz: This message, is it from Anton's Twitter account?
SDNY's Sebade: I don't know what his handle is.
Trefz: But it is not "Spenser Basma" or LTRD?
Sebade: Not that I heard.
Trefz: And Extraquisite?
Sebate: Neither
Re-direct
AUSA: What is this?
Sebade: Google search history, given by Google.
AUSA: 26,000 pages of search history from Anton Peraire-Bueno, but -
Defense: Objection. Outside the scope.
AUSA: I'm asking about the stipulation.
Judge: Overruled
AUSA: Were you asked why James Peraire-Bueno had only 485 pages of Search history?
Sebade: No
AUSA: Do you know Kucoin?
Sebade: A crypto exchange.
AUSA: Do you know what it means to have "absolutely no KYC"?
Sebade: I can infer
All rise!
SDNY witness Sankar [also in Diddy trial] still on stand.
Defense: You will admit that your Office's extractions from the defendants' devices didn't take all the files?
Sankar: Yes.
Defense: GX 6012 is a demonstrative, compiling notifications
Objection!
Sidebar. Now:
Defense: So these are taken from the 10,000 files from each of these phones?
Sankar: Yes.
Defense: Sometimes you can't find the date?
AUSA: Objection!
Defense: Now, Google searches - you were given exhibits and compared to Google's subpoena return
All rise!
Judge: You may proceed.
James' lawyer Trefz: Did the Omakase strategy involve shit-coins?
Chen: Not our own shit token. They were previously existing shit tokens.
James' lawyer Trefz: Why did James suggest putting the crypto on a platform?
Chen: For tax purposes.
AUSA: Hearsay, we'd like a limiting instruction.
Judge: OK. Jurors, you should not consider these for the truth of what is said, but its effect
[Before jury is brought it]
Defense: We are allowed to get into other trading strategies to counter sandwich bots - we understand the danger of a mini-trial on Salmonella, but now it's been brought up.
AUSA: That no one was prosecuted for that should not come in
Defense: Chin in his 3500 with the US, he wasn't saying, we should we could get away with this bad things because Salmonella did - he was saying, we didn't do anything wrong, it was just the culture at the time
AUSA Kudla: Mr. Chen, where is the bait shown right now?
Chen: It's there in the MEV pool. We send eight bait transactions.
AUSA: How did you know it would be successful?
Chen: We had formed testing in the months leading up to Omakase
Defense: Mr. Miller, let's discuss some of the assumptions. Validators have to trust the relays, right?
Miller: Yes
Defense: The process you described, it is necessary because no one trusts the validator, right?
AUSA: Objection!
Overrule
Miller: We minimize trust
Defense: Crypto economics breaks down at the limit, right?
AUSA: Objection!
Overruled.
Miller: What do you mean by breaks down?
AUSA: Let me read to you
AUSA: Objection to reading for a document not in evidence