The first person criminally convicted of cryptocurrency market manipulation filed a motion asking a federal district court in Manhattan to vacate the jury verdict and grant a new trial.
Sanford Talkin, a partner at Talkin, Muccigrosso & Roberts, is among the lawyers for the defendant, trader Avraham Eisenberg, who claimed the prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice “suffered from a series of fundamental flaws, both legal and evidentiary,” on its conviction of commodities fraud, commodities manipulation and wire fraud.
