The U.S. government bid to quash BinanceUS's buy of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager has 'substantial' merits, a judge has said. jackschickler reports .
District Judge Jennifer Rearden said she’d try and move quickly to settle a dispute, given that delays could cost as much as $10 million per month for the estate.Rearden said she would put that on hold
while she considered objections from the U.S. Attorney that the contract effectively rendered Voyager immune by exculpating it from breaches of tax or securities law. Government arguments have “gone entirely unrebutted” by Voyager and its creditors, “neither of which has provided any authority for the proposition that a bankruptcy court can release criminal liability,” Rearden said.
In her further reasoning published Friday, Rearden appeared sympathetic to government arguments, saying that “the Exculpation Clause appears to go further than the quasi-judicial immunity doctrine allows.” Binance's U.S. arm bid for Voyager last year after FTX, the previous bidder, itself collapsed. This week saw Binance’s global entity and its chief executive officer, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, sued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for offering
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