Prosecutors at the Justice Division will fall with out a doubt one of the 13 counts against Sam Bankman-Fried, after his lawyers contested the inclusion of five extra charges filed after his extradition from The Bahamas.

“In accordance to its treaty obligations to The Bahamas, the government would not intend to proceed to trial on the campaign contributions depend,” wrote US Lawyer Damian Williams, in a letter addressed to Resolve Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday.

In its authentic indictment at the tip of 2022, the DOJ charged Bankman-Fried with eight counts, but added five extra charges in a superseding indictment in March.

Lawyers for the extinct FTX CEO argued that the extra charges might furthermore peaceable be brushed off on the grounds that they violated the extradition treaty with the Bahamas, whereas prosecutors claimed that the campaign finance price turned into once an “inadvertent omission” from the distinctive indictment, leaving it as much as the Bahamas government to waive the actual to object to the charges.

Alternatively, the Bahamas has since suggested the government that it did not intend to extradite Bankman-Fried on the campaign finance price, Williams disclosed within the letter.

In maintaining with the indictment, Bankman-Fried frail two FTX executives as straw donors to evade contribution limits on particular individual donations to political candidates. In a November interview, Bankman-Fried printed that he made an equal amount of donations to Democrats and Republicans, asserting he “made the total Republican ones dark.”