The “dropped” charges are the ones that were added after the Bahamas had agreed to extraditing SBF on the original eight charges. The Bahamas Supreme Court ruled that SBF must be allowed to challenge extradition on these additional charges before he can be tried on them. Rather than delaying everything to handle this new development, our feds said they’d go ahead with just the original eight charges that the Bahamas had already agreed on. They will try the other five later, after the Bahamas has approved extradition on them.
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The “dropped” charges are the ones that were added after the Bahamas had agreed to extraditing SBF on the original eight charges. The Bahamas Supreme Court ruled that SBF must be allowed to challenge extradition on these additional charges before he can be tried on them. Rather than delaying everything to handle this new development, our feds said they’d go ahead with just the original eight charges that the Bahamas had already agreed on. They will try the other five later, after the Bahamas has approved extradition on them.