A judge in New York is weighing whether to revoke Sam Bankman-Fried's bail after prosecutors say the FTX co-founder used the news media to harass a key witness against him and that he should be locked up until trial.
. She was the CEO of Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency trading hedge fund that was an offshoot of FTX.
She said Bankman-Fried “went on a media tour” after FTX collapsed and continued after his arrest. She said equipment the government monitors as part of his bail conditions revealed that he has made more than 1,000 phone calls to various journalists, including over 100 calls to the Times reporter and over 500 calls to author Michael Lewis.
Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, told Kaplan that prosecutors notified him only a minute before the hearing that they planned to ask for his client’s incarceration. The lawyer said Bankman-Fried should be free because he was “integral to our defense” as attorneys sift through 4.3 million documents — a number which he said prosecutors describe as unprecedented.
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