[1/2] U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan presides over the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried over the collapse of FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, at Federal Court in New York City, U.S., October 3, 2023 in this courtroom sketch.
Last year, he presided over a civil trial in which the actor Kevin Spacey defeated a sexual abuse claim.
When one prospective juror said they did not understand how cryptocurrency works, Kaplan said, "You probably have a lot of company in this courtroom."
Several times during the first three days of testimony, Kaplan urged defense lawyers to move more quickly as they asked prosecution witnesses questions he deemed repetitive.
Before the trial began, Kaplan issued several key rulings against the defense, including excluding some of their proposed expert witnesses and barring them from making certain arguments at trial.
Persons:
District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Sam Bankman, Jane Rosenberg, District Judge Lewis, levity, Kaplan, Fried, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Jean Carroll, Kevin Spacey, Tom Brady, David Lisner, Matt Huang, You've, Caroline Ellison's, Luc Cohen, Amy Stevens, Lisa Shumaker
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Locations:
FTX, New York City, U.S, Manhattan, Staten, New York