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Cell-site testimony on Day 10 said records were consistent with a phone number linked through an admitted email to Bankman-Fried being in Manhattan on identified dates, while emphasizing that the analysis did not establish the user's identity or exact location. In closing, the government cited Manhattan financial activity, recipients of balance sheets, customers and investors, and investor meetings as evidence of venue.
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Manhattan mattered to venue because the government argued that financial activity, receipt of balance sheets, and investor meetings there were acts in furtherance of the charged crimes within the Southern District of New York.