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Matthew Russell Lee for/as Inner City Press covers SDNY, UN Gate, banks & IMF. books https://t.co/xHL0pGID4n https://t.co/VTEqaLISDB
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Oct 24 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
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
Oct 23 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
OK - back in Crypto Bros trial US v Peraire-Bueno Day 8, cross of SDNY witness. Savannah Tech Yakira due in today. Inner City Press is covering the case matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/extra-more-o… New doc patreon.com/posts/crypto-b… toward a book and will live tweet, thread below Image 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!
Oct 22 • 30 tweets • 10 min read
OK - back in Crypto Bros trial US v Peraire-Bueno Day 7, continued cross of co-worker Travis Chin. Inner City Press is covering the case matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/crypto-bros-… New doc patreon.com/posts/crypto-b… toward a book and will live tweet, thread below Image 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.
Oct 21 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
OK - back in Crypto Bros Trial US v Peraire-Bueno, Salmonella exclusion fight for cross of co-worker Travis Chin on direct. Inner City Press is covering the case matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/extra-in-tri… Docs patreon.com/posts/crypto-b… toward a book and will live tweet, thread below Image [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
Oct 20 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
OK - back in Crypto Bros Trial US v Peraire-Bueno, now co-worker Travis Chin on direct, with non-prosecution agreement. Inner City Press is covering the case matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/crypto-bros-… Docs patreon.com/posts/crypto-b… toward a book and will live tweet, thread below Image 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
Oct 17 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
OK - back in Crypto Bros Trial US v Peraire-Bueno, Flash Bots' Miller still under cross-examination about April 2023 "incident." Inner City Press is cover the case matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/extra-on-tak… Docs patreon.com/posts/crypto-b… toward a book and will live tweet, thread below Crypto bros Anton and James Peraire-Bueno at trial, Day 2 court art courtesy to Inner City Press (toward a book on the case) art by Elizabeth Williams, h/t 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
Oct 17 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
OK - jury deliberating in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide - BNP said it was OK because UN was there - notes, verdict and book (98% ready). Inner City Press, to UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG @AntonioGuterres will live tweet below 10:30 am -
Two plaintiffs' lawyer sit at their table, waiting for notes - or verdict - from the jury. Inner City Press will live tweet as things happen. For now, here's more court art courtesy to Inner City Press from Elizabeth Williams - yesterday's attendees Image
Oct 16 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
OK - closings in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide - then verdict and book (almost ready). Inner City Press which reported on & from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG
@AntonioGuterres
incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below Judge Hellerstein [before jury is brought in] I deny motions to change my jury charge, but I add this language on natural causations. That's the charge I'm giving. Objections?
Plaintiffs' lawyer: We don't thing BNP Paribas' assistance was required
Judge: Denied
Oct 16 • 28 tweets • 10 min read
OK - crypto bros trial US v Peraire-Bueno Day 2, with Flash Bots Miller still on the stand, Inner City Press is covering the case on "sandwich" #Ethereum attacks matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/extra-on-tak… & docs patreon.com/posts/crypto-b… toward book and will live tweet, thread below Image
Image [Before the jury comes in]
Judge: I will allow the defense to explore sandwich trading during the cross.
AUSA: The community's negative view of sandwich attacks should not come in.
Defense: There is no basis to limit the witness to speak about mens rea [2d wit]
Oct 15 • 57 tweets • 16 min read
OK - Crypto trial US v Peraire-Bueno to start with opening arguments today, Inner City Press is covering the case matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/crypto-bros-… & patreon.com/posts/crypto-b… toward a book & will live tweet thread below Image
Image [Before jurors selected yesterday are brought in:
issues are being raised about those picked yesterday]

Defense: We are going to explain to the jury certain background facts about Ethereum and we think that's fair game under the Court's rulings.
Oct 14 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
OK - in crypto bros trial US v. Peraire-Bueno, there have been sidebars with prosecutive jurors all day. Now, questioning in open court right at the end of the day. Inner City Press will cover the trial and will live tweet, thread below Image
Image Prospective juror: I graduated from University of Pittsburgh. I am in operations at a social agency. Before that I was at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. One roommate works at JP Morgan.
Judge: Any children?
Prospective juror: No. I read NYT, FT and WaPo.
Oct 10 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, charge conference before closings next week. Inner City Press which reported on & from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG @AntonioGuterres incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below BNP Paribas' lawyer: There must be one main perpetrator. The alleged tortious conduct all occurred in Sudan, outside the--
Judge: The objection is overruled.
BNP's lawyer: We do not think the Sudan government can be held liable for indirect agents
Oct 9 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyers citing Janjaweed Musa Hilal. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG
@AntonioGuterres
incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below BNP's lawyer: I'm going to read you two sentences, Defense Exhibit S-i.
Judge: A report by the Department of State, human rights.
BNP's lawyer: "Darfur continued to be a scene of humanitarian abuses, the government only disarmed the Fur and non-Arab groups
Oct 6 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyers now putting on defense case. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG
@AntonioGuterres incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below BNP Paribas' first witness is its COO Phlippe Maillard.
BNP lawyer: Did BNP outside the Americas do business with Sudan?
Plaintiffs' lawyer: Objection!
Judge: Sustained.
BNP lawyer: Did BNP Suisse in Geneva do business with Sudan?
Maillard: Yes.
Oct 3 • 121 tweets • 27 min read
OK - now US v Sean Combs sentencing starts. US wants 11 years, he wants time served; today he has a video & at least 4 lawyers to speak. Opposed "Mia," but she will speak. Inner City Press wrote the book and will live tweet, thread belowamazon.com/dp/B0DHP7YF19 As Combs' lawyer mill around, he has still not been brought out. A US Marshal brings out a big sheaf of papers and a red book, picks up the chair to search underneath. All clear.
Oct 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
OK - now at sentencing of Michael Anderson in Yoga to the People case. AUSA says he was the "functional CFO" - asking for prison but less than 46 months. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below AUSA: He was the son of a CPA. He fabricated documents, a mortgage application.
Defense: He lives in the Northwest - Canada doesn't allow you in if you have even a drunk driving change. He had planned to travel to Japan. I think some encouragement is appropriate
Oct 1 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyer moving for judgment. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG @AntonioGuterres
incl from UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below BNP's lawyer Michael Martinez of Gibson Dunn: The Swiss courts say BNP cannot be held liable-
Judge: I have already decided that. Don't waste your client's money. Next argument.
BNP's lawyer: No proximate cause - Sudan was violent regardless, Mr. Hudson said
Sep 29 • 49 tweets • 12 min read
OK - Charlie Javice sentencing at SDNY. Inner City Press covered the trial and wrote the book Fintech Fraudster and will live tweet, thread below amazon.com/Fintech-Frauds…Image All rise!
Judge Hellerstein: It's my duty Ms. Javice to sentence you today. Have you read the pre-sentencing report? You have not?
Javice: I have.
Judge: I'll deal with you counsel's objections first
Sep 25 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
OK - now US v. Sean Combs, hearing on motion for acquittal or new trial. Inner City Press covered the trial in books from indictment
to verdict and will live tweet this (& Oct 3), thread belowamazon.com/dp/B0DHP7YF19 11:04 am - Combs is still in the holding cell. At defense table: Alexandra Shapiro [now also representing an Alexander brother, Justin Baldino and Charlie Javice], Xavier Donaldson, Nicole Westmoreland, Brian Steel & Agnifilo. Prosecutors stone faces in front row
Sep 22 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP's Jacques D'Estais is the witness. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by @SG
@AntonioGuterres incl from UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below Plaintiffs' lawyer: Were you aware that Sudanese government entities were clients of BNP?
D'Estais: Yes. In 2006.
Plaintiffs' lawyer: You were the head of investment solutions for BNPP?
D'Estais: Yes.
Sep 18 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, money laundering expert Barry M. Koch on the stand, Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by @SG
@AntonioGuterres will live tweet, thread below Plaintiffs' lawyer: Mr. Koch, was there any reason for BNP Paribas to use satellite banks for this other than to conceal that Sudan was involved?
BNP lawyer: Objection!
Judge: Sustained.
Plaintiffs' lawyer: Did it make it faster?
Koch: Slower. But it went through