Crypto Bros: SDNY v Peraire-Bueno

Matthew Russell Lee

Inner City Press

About this ebook

I was covering the trial of the crypto brothers, James and Anton Peraire-Bueno, when the SDNY witness read into the record an email, that the brothers' father was helping them with the bot.

 

      I looked over at the father, Jaime Peraire, who had been in the front row of the courtroom gallery every day, even back to the pre-trial conferences I covered. But there's no talking in the gallery.

 

 At the lunch break I was down on the eighth floor, in front of the cafeteria, when the father and mother came down.

 

 I asked Jaime Peraire if I had heard the prosecutor right. [The Federal government was in budget shutdown so there was no way to get the exhibits they had been reading from.]

 

  At first Jaime Peraire smiled apologetically, like, I cannot answer.

 

 I said, I just want to get this right. Would I be wrong to report that they read that out in court?

 

 "That is what they read," Jaime Peraire said. I ran to tweet it out on X, and now this book.

 

  Another platform without notice canceled all my previous books, including on SBF, Do Kwon and Roman Storm. And so this one is here, here it is. Crypto Bros, Part 1.

About the author

Matthew Russell Lee is a lawyer and author who covers the courthouses in lower Manhattan, and the United Nations in midtown, for Inner City Press. He has written books about trials in the SDNY courthouse - several of them currenly censored including on Ghislaine Maxwell, Kevin Spacey and also Sam Bankman-Fried, OneCoin, Alex Mashinsky, Avi Eisenberg, so now Crypto Bros Peraire-Bueno here - as well as covering and questioning financial regulation at the state, Federal and international level.