The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has decided to drop a campaign finance charge against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried due to extradition issues involving the Bahamas, where Bankman-Fried was arrested, according to a letter filed on the docket late Wednesday.

In the letter, assistant U.S. attorney Thane Rehn wrote that officials in the Bahamas have informed the U.S. government that they “did not intend to extradite the defendant on the campaign contributions count.”

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