Judge Grants Additional Time In Cryptsy Case To Prepare Expert Report.

The legal platoon for a former Goldman Sachs banker indicted of helping guests shirk levies said it wants until March 3 to file a offer for fresh bail conditions for Bankman- Fried and find a suitable seeker to act as a specialized expert in the case.

The counsel, Mark Cohen of Cohen & Gressler, said he was working on a list of implicit campaigners but declined to give details or say how numerous were involved.

We are looking at people who are academic experts and have experience with similar cases, he told Reuters.

Bankman- Fried is fighting repatriation from New York state, where he was arrested by civil authorities onSept. 9. He has contended not shamefaced to charges that he helped guests hide income from the Internal Revenue Service( IRS) by directing them to foreign banks that didn't report their accounts or issue interest payments onU.S.- tested plutocrat.

His arrest came as Congress is mooting legislation that would crack down on coastal duty elusion by taking large fiscal institutions like banks and barricade finances to expose information about power of coastal accounts held by Americans or nonnatives living in America on a regular base, including within 12 months of opening an account and annually later