Sam Bankman-Fried says prosecutors 'sandbagged' him over demands to tighten FTX founder's bail
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has accused prosecutors of sandbagging him over a request to tighten the conditions of his bail after accusing him of witness tampering.asking for two new conditions to be added to Bankman-Fried's bail: that he not speak to employees or former employees of FTX or Alameda without the presence of a lawyer, and that he couldn't use encrypted messaging apps for correspondence, notably Signal.
The requests were linked to the Department of Justice's allegation that Bankman-Fried's communication with FTX US general counsel Ryne Miller, a witness in the trial, constituted witness tampering. "I would really love to reconnect and see if there's a way for us to have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other," Bankman-Fried is accused of saying to Miller.
"But rather than wait for any response from the defense, the Government sandbagged the process, filing this letter at 6:00pm on Friday evening," lawyers wrote. "In an apparent effort to portray our client in the worst possible light, the Government's letter makes it appear as if it were prompted by exigent circumstances that required it to file on a Friday night and seek these new bail conditions."— who both plead guilty to fraud charges — as people Bankman-Fried be barred from contacting. They proposed he could continue speaking with his father Joseph Bankman and his therapist George Lerner without the presence of a lawyer.
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