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Gareth Jenkinson1 hour agoSam Bankman-Fried $500M Anthropic stake irrelevant to case, prosecutors sayUnited States prosecutors argue that the potential for FTX investors to be made whole through the high valuation of Anthropic cannot be presented by Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal team.1046 Total views8 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsJoin us on social networksUnited States prosecutors have requested the court presiding over Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial to bar his legal team from making any arguments relating to the potential recovery of FTX customer assets invested in Anthropic.


Bankman-Fried invested $500 million in the artificial intelligence startup in April 2022; however, the U.S. government is set to present evidence that the Anthropic investment was made using misappropriated funds from FTX customer deposits.


Anthropic made headlines in recent weeks as it looks to raise fresh funds from investors, courting the likes of Amazon and Google, which could lead to a $20–$30 billion valuation.


U.S. prosecutors note that recent reports focused on the potentially high valuation of the company would also increase the value of Bankman-Fried’s investment, which could aid the potential recovery of funds for FTX customers and other creditors in the FTX bankruptcy.


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According to the letter submitted to Judge Lewis Kaplan, the legal teams representing the U.S. government and Bankman-Fried conferred over various issues that could be elicited during cross-examination of witnesses.


Bankman-Fried’s legal team plans to present evidence regarding the current value of the former FTX CEO’s $500 million investment in Anthropic in 2022.


The prosecutors believe that this evidence is intended to be used to support the argument that FTX customers and other victims would be fully compensated for their losses, which the court has previously indicated as an “impermissible purpose:”“Such evidence would therefore be wholly irrelevant, and present a substantial danger of unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue delay, and waste of time.”


The government maintains that the indictment against Bankman-Fried is centered on allegations of wire fraud using FTX customer deposits to make investments and other expenditures. The prosecutors argue that any mention of investments made that might have been profitable are ultimately immaterial and irrelevant to the charges that the jury is considering.


The government also contends that while it plans to introduce evidence of Bankman-Fried’s alleged misappropriation of customer deposits that resulted in massive losses on FTX’s balance sheet, it does not intend to offer any evidence regarding the ultimate losses of victims once the FTX bankruptcy process is complete.


Cointelegraph journalist Ana Paula Pereira is in New York covering the Bankman-Fried trial. The first week of the trial was centered on establishing how some $8 billion of FTX customer funds went missing from the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange.


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