By Luc Cohen
NEW YORK A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a request from prosecutors to try some of their charges against Sam Bankman-Fried in a second trial next year separate from his scheduled Oct. 2 trial on fraud charges over the collapse of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
(Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru and by Luc Cohen in New York; editing by Jason Neely, Elaine Hardcastle and Leslie Adler)