Bankman-Fried requests release to work on defense
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of FTX, is seeking space outside detention weekly to prepare for his upcoming trial. His attorneys rejected a two-day-a-week release proposal offered by the U.S. government. Detention conditions challenged Bankman-Fried has been in a New York jail for a week, but he is requesting to be release d five days a week so that he may work on his defense with his attorneys at the federal courthouse in Manhattan. The disgraced entrepreneur’s attorneys claimed in a letter sent on Aug. 18 to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that Bankman-Fried couldn’t thoroughly review the massive amount of documents in his case while he was detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Bankman-Fried, 31, had his $250 million bail revoked last week for allegedly attempting to tamper with witnesses. You might also like: Binance CEO criticizes Sam Bankman Fried’s actions In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, attorneys...