https://www.teletrader.com/new-judge-appointed-to-sbf-case/news/details/59193564
Lewis Kaplan, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, was appointed to take over the Sam Bankman-Fried case, related to the collapse of the FTX empire and defrauding, a court filing revealed on Tuesday.
The previous judge, Ronnie Abrams, recused herself from the case after having found out that a law firm, where her husband works as a partner, advised FTX back in 2021.
Earlier, Bankman-Fried's associates, FTX co-founder Gary Wang and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison both pleaded guilty to the criminal charges raised against them, adding that they would take cooperating with the authorities "seriously."