Reuters reported that Bankman-Fried selected Mark S. Cohen, a managing partner and founder of the New York law firm Cohen & Gresser as his legal counsel.
Cohen, a former US attorney, was part of the team that represented Maxwell, the longtime close friend of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was sentenced to years of imprisonment in June for assisting Epstein in the abuse of underage girls.
According to Bloomberg, during a Twitter Spaces appearance on Tuesday, Bankman-Fried reportedly stated that his hiring of Cohen was “based on the advice of counsel and people who are able to understand the situation and the context.”
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Sam Bankman-Fried has hired the prominent New York defense attorney who defended Jeffrey Epstein confidant and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, according to Reuters.
Citing a spokesperson for the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, the news service reported that Bankman-Fried has hired Mark S. Cohen, a civil and criminal defense attorney at Cohen & Gresser.
A former federal prosecutor, Cohen specializes in white-collar crime and civil litigation including securities litigation, as well as federal and state regulatory proceedings.
He also defended Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein.