US authorities have set March 17 for the second appearance of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, the New York Federal Court indicated this Monday.

During the first hearing, both were formally presented before the US justice system, and at the end of the initial session, “the judge in charge of the case established the schedule for the continuation of the process, setting the date for the second appearance.”

It is important to note that both pleaded not guilty during this first hearing to the charges against them in this historic legal process.

“During the hearing, presided over by Federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, Maduro faced charges of drug trafficking and weapons possession. Addressing the court, Maduro stated, “I am innocent, I am not guilty.”

The defense did not request bail at this stage of the proceedings, nor did Flores’s defense, although “it did make an urgent health request to the court. It requested medical attention, alleging possible rib injuries.”

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Microsoft has launched a free trial and downloadable version of the online version of Office. This is an option to the paid version and is financed by advertising.

With this alternative, users have the opportunity to “use most of the functions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, without needing a subscription.”

The trial is limited and includes the functions of Microsoft Office for desktop, “which allow you to create and edit Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.”

The novelty is that they include advertising, since their financing depends on it, and some of their features are limited.

The ads appear within the applications in an advertising banner on the right of the screen that cannot be removed. On the other hand, “advertising videos of around 15 seconds are played every few hours of use.”

According to the media Beebom, in this version users do not have the option to save their documents locally, but to store them in OneDrive. “In order to save the documents on the computer, they must be downloaded later from the application or the OneDrive website. In addition, Microsoft offers a capacity of 5 GB of free storage in OneDrive for this service.”

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Sam Bankman-Fried, the controversial founder of cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX, will not face a second trial in the United States, prosecutors confirmed last Friday. After being found guilty last month of defrauding FTX users, Bankman-Fried was embroiled in a series of charges that culminated in a first conviction trial.

The U.S. Department of Justice. The U.S. decided not to proceed with a second trial, based on arguments presented in a Manhattan federal court. According to sources, prosecutors felt that another trial would only delay justice and would not contribute significantly to the case, given that much of the evidence had already been presented before.

Bankman-Fried, 31, was facing six additional charges following his November conviction for crimes including electronic fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. These charges related to violations of campaign finance laws and illegal money transfer operations. However, prosecutors decided not to pursue these additional charges.

The former CEO of FTX, extradited from the Bahamas in December 2022, remains in prison awaiting sentencing. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 2024, facing a possible maximum sentence of more than 100 years in prison. This turn of events marks another chapter in the fall of one of the most recognized names in the world of cryptocurrencies.

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US prosecutors asked the court presiding over Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial to prohibit his legal team from presenting any arguments related to the possible recovery of FTX clients’ assets invested in Anthropic.

In April 2022, Bankman-Fried invested $500 million in the artificial intelligence startup. However, the US government is preparing to present evidence alleging that said investment was made with misappropriated funds from FTX customer deposits.

Recently, Anthropic has been in the spotlight as it seeks new investment funds, courting giants like Amazon and Google, which could lead to an estimated valuation of between $20 billion and $30 billion.

US prosecutors argue that recent reports about Anthropic’s high valuation could increase the value of Bankman-Fried’s investment, potentially making it easier to recover funds for FTX clients and other creditors in the event of a potential FTX bankruptcy.

In a letter submitted to Judge Lewis Kaplan, the US government and Bankman-Fried’s legal teams reached agreements on various issues related to the questioning of witnesses.

Bankman-Fried’s legal team intends to present evidence on the current value of its $500 million investment in Anthropic in 2022.

Prosecutors maintain that this evidence seeks to support an argument that the court found “inadmissible”: “Such evidence would therefore be totally irrelevant and would present a substantial risk of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, misleading the jury, unnecessary delays and loss of time.”

The government argues that the allegations against Bankman-Fried center on wire fraud, using FTX customer deposits for investments and miscellaneous expenses. According to prosecutors, any mention of profitable investments is ultimately immaterial and irrelevant to the charges the jury is considering.

The government also states that while it plans to present evidence of Bankman-Fried’s alleged misappropriation of customer deposits, which resulted in significant losses on FTX’s balance sheet, it does not intend to offer evidence related to the losses. ends of the victims once the FTX bankruptcy process is concluded.

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October 3 marked the start of the trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency platform FTX, in federal court in Manhattan. This trial focuses on charges of fraud and money laundering. The first session was largely devoted to jury selection, and as anticipated, Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty.

The noted financial genius, who at 31 years old experienced both success and the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison if found guilty of several of the seven charges, arrived in the courtroom in a suit and tie, presenting hair noticeably shorter than his characteristic style, according to the media present in the room.

Judge Lewis Kaplan began by asking Bankman-Fried if he wanted to exercise his right not to testify, a decision that rested solely with him. The judge then reminded the defense that they still had the opportunity to submit a plea agreement, to which they responded in the negative.

Prior to the session, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys filed a complaint with the judge opposing the Prosecutor’s request to call FTX clients as witnesses to determine whether they fully understood how FTX handled its assets. and the role of the company as custodian of them.

The defense argued that the jury must evaluate the facts from the objective perspective of a reasonable person, suggesting that customers affected by FTX’s bankruptcy may not fit this category.

This dispute stands out as a crucial point in the development of the Bankman-Fried trial, since the jury will have to rule on the complex world of cryptocurrencies, about which they may have limited knowledge, as noted by the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper reported that both the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense will seek to take advantage of this alleged lack of knowledge in their favor. The Prosecutor’s Office will seek to limit the trial to the concepts of lies and theft, avoiding going into technical details. On the other hand, the defense could insist on the more complex aspects to argue that the jury cannot convict crimes it does not understand, especially when the defendant has pleaded not guilty.

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A federal judge in the United States has annulled this Friday the provisional freedom of Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and former CEO of the cryptographic asset exchange platform FTX, after the Prosecutor’s Office held him responsible for leaking documents that would have as their final objective pressure to witnesses, less than two months after the fraud trial against him begins in New York.

Bankman-Fried was released upon payment of 250 million dollars and with the gift that he meet a series of requirements, including staying at his parents’ home in California. Already in July, Judge Lewis Kaplan placed him on notice for the contacts he continued to maintain with the media, but his defense insisted that he should remain free, among other things, because that was the only way he could prepare with guarantees for the impending trial.

The Prosecutor’s Office estimates that Bankman-Fried sent more than a hundred emails and made more than a thousand calls to journalists in recent months, although the straw that would have broken the camel’s back would have been the leaking of parts of the diary of his ex-partner Caroline Ellison, who already he pleaded guilty to various federal crimes for his role with the company, according to NBC.

The FTX founder, who continues to defend his innocence, was arrested in the Bahamas in December last year and, within days, extradited to the United States. He is being investigated for the alleged diversion of funds from the company, which ended up declaring bankruptcy besieged by debts and after doubts about its real solvency.

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This Thursday begins the trial against the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, due to an open case before the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) due to the attacks against the electoral system of electronic ballot boxes, or that could disqualify him for eight years for public office.

The case began in July 2022, “three months before the presidential elections in which he was defeated by the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.”

It is now when the process against Bolsonaro begins, which could leave him out of the 2026 presidential race in Brazil, since he would be disqualified for a period of eight years.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the request is that “Bolsonaro be declared ineligible due to abuse of political power and improper use of the media.” On the other hand, the agency requested “the acquittal of reserve general Walter Braga Netto, former candidate Bolsonaro’s vice president also included in the case.

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This Tuesday information was leaked from sources close to Elon Musk, according to which the tycoon would have sent a letter to the platform’s administrative council indicating that he will continue with the Twitter purchase proposal started in April.

Consequently, the actions in the stock market of the social network Twitter experienced a rebound that some media collect at 12 % while others place it at 18 % percent. The truth is that the listing had to be suspended due to this stock market phenomenon.

As will be recalled, Elon Musk, after accepting the purchase of Twitter at $54.2 per share last April, backed down, arguing that Twitter had not been transparent about the information on fake accounts. Until July, although the offer was still valid, the price of the share fell to around 32.7 dollars.

Both parties were due to go to trial on October 17. However, after this turn in history, the legal process is expected to be suspended.

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The video game Fornite will not return to Apple’s application platform ecosystem, until the trial it holds with its developer, Epic Games, including the appeals process, is definitively concluded.

This was stated by the company in an email sent to Epic Games in response to the latter’s request to restore Fortnite in the App Store.

Epic Games and Apple maintain a legal dispute after the implementation of an alternative payment system to Apple in Fortnite, from which it did not obtain commissions, which led to its withdrawal from the App Store of its version for iOS and the monopoly complaint of the studio against American technology.

The initial verdict of the California district court that has tried the case since May determined that Apple does not maintain a monopoly on digital transactions in mobile video games and that Epic had to compensate with 30 % of its income for payments since August 2020 for breaching its contract. Epic announced its intention to appeal the ruling.

However, at the same time, it recognizes an anticompetitive behavior in the applications in general of the App Store, and ordered that it be allowed to include in the applications “metadata, external links or other calls to action that direct customers to purchase mechanisms.”

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Defamatory comments published on the Internet can be very harmful, both for the person indicated, as well as for their family group. The damages are diverse and affect from the children in their schools who are exposed to the rejection or ridicule of their peers for a fact that involves their parents, the business area, the companies or organizations that may be harmed in their contracts because others do not want to connect with them.

There may also be mental, psychological and psychiatric damages that can decompensate the victim. This is stated by the lawyer Jesús Ramón Rodríguez, who adds that we are all on the street and just as we can catch the flu, we can also be the object of offenses.

“Whether it is a normal person who is exalted or by a person who has a madness or lack of control, also through networks that slightly make some statements that affect the individual or that a web can place indications regarding another one without having contacted it, just because of a revenge or to cause any affection… in such a way that the aggrieved person feels bad,  and is affected.”

Rodríguez knows the subject very well. He is a specialist in Criminal Law and Computer Law. He stresses that the good name, reputation, honor and private life of people as well as their integrity are protected by the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in its article 60.

He takes profit to refer to article 442 of the Penal Code which regulates the issue of defamation and article 444, of the same code, which refers to insults.

It states that both terms have penalties that are mild in scope. “Defamation has a penalty of jail for one to three years and a fine of 100 to 1,000 tax units, that at the judge’s discretion, depending on the seriousness of the fact and if it concurs in other conducts that may be that it has been carried out in a manner continued, that aggravates the penalty,” he highlights.

In the case of insults, the Penal Code indicates that the person will be punished with imprisonment from six months to one year and a fine of fifty tax units (50 U.T.).

Actions to take

J.D. Jesús Ramón Rodríguez points out that there are actions that the defamed person can carry out, including addressing the aggressor and claiming the situation in order to withdraw the publication that has been made. Another way is to go directly to file what is called a complaint or a private accusation before a Court of Trial, not that of control. Accordong to him, it has to be triggered and monitored by the offended person himself or by his legal representative and that the Public Ministry does not intervene in this type of case.

“It is a situation of debate that will arise between the person who feels offended and the one who is being prosecuted, who is being accused of that conduct, of defamation and injury.”

The good name, reputation, honor and private life of people as well as their integrity are legally protected

He explains that – as they are crimes of private action – they have a particular, special procedure, also established in the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure. “It should be noted that the way to intervene the Prosecutor’s Office would be a first step, when this is about the location of data of that aggressor, of that offending person who is carrying out such activity and the offended person does not have the instruments to ensure that said person can be identified. Then the Public Ministry carries out what is called judicial assistance and delivers the information requested by the offended person and consigns it to the Court of trial so that the procedure with the complaint that it initiates can be carried out.”

Rodríguez recommends communicating with a trusted lawyer to be able to analyze the case and the behaviors if they really reach illicit that can be prosecuted and see the possibility that it may be reportable; “there are cases in which conviction responses have been received for these aggressive acts of the defamatory or insulting by electronic means and it is perfectly feasible.”

Finally, Rodríguez took advantage to put himself at the command of whoever wants to talk and have information about facts of which he feels offended, and thus analyze together “the situation that actually occurred and evaluate, consider whether we have the possibility of taking it to trial.”

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