Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is reportedly asking for a extra lenient jail schedule to permit him to arrange for his protection forward of the October trial.
Bloomberg reviews that Bankman-Fried’s attorneys have written a letter to the U.S. District Choose Lewis Kaplan making the case for the previous FTX CEO to be let loose 5 days every week to evaluate paperwork.
The report quotes Bankman-Fried’s lawyer Christian Everdell saying that the FTX co-founder can have “no hope of reviewing” the huge trove of paperwork underneath the present jail schedule.
Bloomberg cites Everdell saying,
“Simply final week the federal government produced three-quarters of one million pages of Slack communications, which had been purported to be produced months in the past…”
The Bloomberg report says that Everdell in his letter to Choose Kaplan sought to have Bankman-Fried get entry to an internet-enabled laptop computer and time to fulfill along with his attorneys. Jail officers have reportedly resisted the thought of transferring the FTX co-founder to a smaller facility the place he may entry an internet-enabled laptop computer, which the prosecutors had initially instructed.
In keeping with the report, prosecutors have stated it’s impractical to load all of the paperwork onto a laptop computer however have provided to load them onto laborious drives which Bankman-Fried can then use on computer systems obtainable on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, the principle jail for defendants awaiting federal trials within the state of New York.
Bankman-Fried was arrested in December of 2022 and numerous legal prices together with wire fraud, commodities fraud and securities fraud filed towards him. He was initially positioned underneath home arrest on a $250 million bail however his phrases had been revoked earlier this month after he allegedly tampered with a witness. His trial is about to kick off on October 2nd.
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