Prosecutors within the prison case towards Sam Bankman-Fried, the founding father of the collapsed cryptocurrency alternate FTX, on Monday supplied probably the most detailed account so far of the proof they plan to make use of to convict him at trial in October.

In a 70-page court docket submitting, the prosecutors mentioned they’d draw on testimony from a few of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s closest advisers, in addition to an skilled witness and different staff of FTX and Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund he additionally based.

The prosecutors additionally mentioned they deliberate to make use of notes that Caroline Ellison, certainly one of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s high lieutenants, took after conversations with him, together with a memo titled “Things Sam Is Freaking Out About.” And they mentioned they’d introduce a recording of a gathering during which Ms. Ellison instructed Alameda staff that she had labored with Mr. Bankman-Fried to siphon funds from FTX clients’ accounts.

Mr. Bankman-Fried, a onetime crypto mogul who constructed FTX into one of many world’s largest digital forex exchanges, was arrested in December and charged with orchestrating a sweeping scheme to make use of buyer deposits to finance actual property purchases, charitable giving and donations to politicians. Ms. Ellison and two different high FTX executives, Gary Wang and Nishad Singh, have pleaded responsible to collaborating within the effort and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Mr. Bankman-Fried faces seven fees of wire fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud and cash laundering. He has pleaded not responsible and is scheduled to go on trial on Oct. 2. Last week, he was sent to jail after the choose overseeing the case revoked his bail over allegations that he was attempting to intimidate witnesses.

A spokesman for Mr. Bankman-Fried declined to remark. A lawyer for Ms. Ellison didn’t reply to a request for remark.

The prosecutors’ submitting on Monday argued that the proof they gathered ought to be legally admissible at Mr. Bankman-Fried’s trial. The proof contains monetary data, spreadsheets, Google paperwork and personal communications, based on the submitting.

Mr. Bankman-Fried’s attorneys submitted their very own memo on Monday, claiming that prosecutors had “repeatedly failed” to satisfy the deadlines for turning over proof to the protection. Just three days in the past, the submitting mentioned, prosecutors produced almost 750,000 pages of Slack messages from Mr. Wang’s laptop computer. They mentioned the federal government shouldn’t be allowed to make use of proof produced to the protection after July 1, and that different materials, together with proof associated to Mr. Bankman-Fried’s resignation from FTX, must also be overlooked of the trial.

“The defense does not have unlimited resources and must spend the limited time left before trial preparing its defense rather than reviewing eleventh-hour productions,” the submitting mentioned.

Over months of investigation, prosecutors have amassed millions of pages of evidence as they’ve ready for Mr. Bankman-Fried’s trial, one of many largest troves ever collected in a white-collar securities fraud case introduced by the federal authorities in Manhattan.

The authorities’s court docket submitting on Monday supplied the primary detailed have a look at the proof and the witnesses that prosecutors plan to introduce at trial. The authorities plans to quote spreadsheets maintained by Ms. Ellison, Mr. Singh and Mr. Wang that “kept track of illicit money flows between Alameda and FTX,” the submitting mentioned, and to debate the FTX ads that appeared on TV.

Prosecutors additionally plan to quote Mr. Bankman-Fried’s political giving as proof for the fraud fees. The submitting cited a textual content message {that a} high-ranking FTX government, Ryan Salame, despatched to a member of the family in November 2021, describing Mr. Bankman-Fried’s plans to make use of political donations to advertise cryptocurrencies in Washington.

The objective of the donations was to “weed out anti crypto dems for pro crypto dems and anti crypto repubs for pro crypto repubs,” Mr. Salame wrote within the message. He added that Mr. Bankman-Fried would “route money through me to weed out that republican side.”

Mr. Salame has been underneath investigation for months, culminating in a raid of his home in April, although he has not been charged with any crimes. The submitting mentioned he was “unavailable as a witness” as a result of his lawyer had invoked his Fifth Amendment proper to not provide self-incriminating info.

A lawyer for Mr. Salame didn’t reply to a request for remark.

But Ms. Ellison, Mr. Singh and Mr. Wang are all anticipated to testify, the submitting mentioned. The prosecutors mentioned they’d additionally name different former FTX and Alameda staff, together with somebody who “regularly consulted with the defendant about FTX’s fund-raising efforts.”

The testimony from Ms. Ellison particularly is prone to be essential to the prosecution’s case. In addition to operating Alameda, Ms. Ellison was in an on-and-off romantic relationship with Mr. Bankman-Fried.

The submitting gives a transcript of a gathering that Ms. Ellison held with Alameda staff in November 2022, as FTX and Alameda had been collapsing amid a run on deposits. According to the transcript, an worker requested Ms. Ellison who had made the choice to attract on buyer funds.

“Um … Sam, I guess,” she replied.

Matthew Goldstein contributed reporting.