The shares of Robinhood possess change into a first-rate point of competition within the Delaware financial bother court case. Whereas Bankman-Fried owned that equity, he borrowed hundreds of tens of millions of dollars from FTX’s affiliated shopping and selling firm, Alameda Overview, to protect it via a separate entity called Emergent Fidelity Technology, of which he owns 90%, along with FTX cofounder Gary Wang.  

Diversified events possess tried to settle the Robinhood shares, in conjunction with the FTX financial bother property and the crypto lender BlockFi—Bankman-Fried’s Emergent had pledged the stock as collateral for bigger than $600 million in loans that BlockFi supplied Alameda prior to its financial bother. The U.S. Department of Justice will doubtless be staking a divulge: On Jan. 4, U.S. attorney Seth Shapiro educated the focus on overseeing the FTX financial bother that prosecutors are within the method of seizing the shares.

In Thursday’s objection, Bankman-Fried’s legal professionals argued that the company as a lot as tempo of the Robinhood equity is now not a celebration to the financial bother proceedings, as it’s now not owned by Alameda or every other entity implicated within the financial bother. Emergent had received the shares in a separate filing with the Securities and Replace Commission.

The DOJ charged Bankman-Fried with eight counts of federal fraud in December connected to the fall down of FTX and Alameda. He pled now not responsible, and a trial is determined for October.

In their objection, Bankman-Fried’s legal professionals wrote that the right method for FTX debtors to compose the shares could well maybe be advancing a “unfounded transfer divulge,” or that the shares had been transferred from Alameda to Emergent below suspicious circumstances.  

As court proceedings continue in both the financial bother case and Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial, jockeying for the hundreds of tens of millions of dollars’ price of shares will continue, especially as the price of other holdings—such as FTX’s proprietary FTT token—has evaporated.  

Bankman-Fried’s legal professionals argued that he requires the Robinhood shares to pay for his criminal protection. Bankman-Fried, whose price used to be once valued at $26.5 billion, has acknowledged that he finest has $100,000 left in his checking fable.  

Citing case regulation, the legal professionals wrote that a “financial inability to protect oneself has serious penalties.” 

The FTX debtors, Bankman-Fried’s legal professionals persisted, finest face the likely of economic loss.