The New York federal judge presiding over Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial previously handled author E. Jean Carroll’s civil suit against Donald Trump, and a trial involving a college basketball recruiting scandal, among other prominent cases.
US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will oversee jury selection set to begin Tuesday in the Southern District of New York. Kaplan’s already issued a series of rulings against the FTX founder in the trial run-up, including an Oct. 1 decision that Bankman-Fried can’t refer in his opening statement to the involvement of attorneys in certain events at FTX.
Kaplan, a New York City native ...