Bankman-Fried gave Ellison's diary to discredit her

• The Ministry of Justice submitted a court complaint in which it accuses the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to let Caroline Ellison's diary seeped through.
• Bankman-Fried is said to have made a New York Times reporter and passed on the information.
• The government sees this to discredit an attempt by the SBF, Ellison, an important witness.

The US Justice Ministry (DOJ) says Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of FTX, passed on the content of a private diary of Caroline Ellison to a New York Times reporter.

according to Doj wanted to "discredit" Bankman-Fried Ellison.

Ellison is a former colleague of Bankman-Fried and headed Alameda Research, a sister company of the collapsed crypto exchange.

she was also charged with the implosion of the company. However, Ellison agreed to cooperate with the public prosecutor and is considered an important witness in the case of the Doj against the former FTX boss.

The government's complaint against SBF refers to a Article Ellison's private diary included. In his Submission FTX CEO is behind the leak and that his action " tried to publicly discredit a witness to the government ."

" The purpose of the defendant with the transfer of these materials is clear. Ellison has guilty and is expected to say in court that she has agreed with the accused, to cheat the customers and investors from FTX and the lenders from Alameda. The accused tries to provide a witness, the accused, a witness To discredit, put Ellison in a bad light and to promote his defense by the press and outside the constraints of the courtroom and the rules of evidence: that Ellison was a lover who was left who committed these crimes alone , according to part of the complaint of the doj.

In addition, the government regards this as an extrajudicial step of the accused, who could not only affect the jury, but also the witnesses that are supposed to testify against him. It is not the first complaint that the Doj submitted against Bankman-Fried.

" The effect, if not the intention, the behavior of the accused, not only consists in bothering Ellison, but also in preventing other potential witnesses of the process from the testimony ", wrote the doj.

In January the public prosecutor said that he had tried to influence an FTX.US official. The government has therefore asked the court to issue orders that restrict the extrajudicial statements that could affect the jury and witnesses.

SBF, once praised as a crypto wonder child and darling of the Capitol, is under house arrest and threatens in the event of a conviction with a long prison sentence. His process should begin in October.