Former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, is preparing to engage a financial expert to challenge the testimonies presented by Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, and Adam Yedidia.
The legal team representing Sam Bankman-Fried is strategizing to introduce an expert witness to counter the testimonies provided by Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, and other witnesses regarding the extent of financial connections between FTX and the trading company. In a letter addressed to New York District Judge Lewis Kaplan on October 23rd, Bankman-Fried’s legal representatives stated that Joseph Pimbley from the litigation consulting firm PF2 Securities would provide testimony on behalf of the former FTX CEO. The letter outlines that Pimbley will offer evidence, based on FTX’s database information, indicating that Alameda’s line of credit with FTX fluctuated between approximately $1 billion and $3 billion from October 2021 to September 2022, with a decrease in June 2022. This testimony aims to establish a clear timeline for the line of credit. Pimbley will also attest that the majority of balances for non-FTX and non-Alameda users are denominated in United States dollars, Bitcoin BTC
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$1.00 , and that over 75% of balances for non-FTX and Alameda users are associated with accounts that have spot margin enabled, spot margin lending enabled, or exhibit futures activity. This information can provide context for the testimonies given by former FTX executives.
Additionally, this testimony aims to contradict the statements made by Ellison, FTX co-founder Gary Wang, former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh, and former FTX employee Adam Yedidia regarding Alameda’s line of credit and the utilization of margin trading by FTX customers. Pimbley is expected to challenge Ellison’s assertion that Alameda had “essentially unlimited credit with FTX” and Wang’s statement that the firm had borrowed “approximately $3 billion” from the credit line. Pimbley’s extensive 54-page disclosure comprises a variety of charts, excerpts from spreadsheets, diagrams, and database queries extracted from FTX’s Amazon Web Services database, all of which pertain to FTX’s line of credit with Alameda between October 2021 and November 2022. Pimbley is receiving compensation at an hourly rate of $720, in addition to expenses, for his services. However, he has affirmed that he holds “no financial stake in the outcome of this case.” Notably, he was one of seven expert witnesses initially proposed by Bankman-Fried’s legal team. Judge Kaplan initially barred them from testifying but allowed for the possibility of future testimonies, contingent on their response to government witness testimonies and the clarification of their claims.
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