Sam Bankman-Fried Wants Weekly Jail Release to Prepare Defense Case
- The FTX co-founder is in Brooklyn’s federal detention center
- Bankman-Fried had his bail revoked by judge a week ago
Sam Bankman-Fried leaves court in New York on July 26.
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A week after being jailed, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking to be let out five days a week to work on his defense with his lawyers at the federal courthouse in Manhattan.
Lawyers for Bankman-Fried, who had his $250 million bail revoked last week for allegedly trying to tamper with witnesses, said in a Friday letter to US District Judge Lewis Kaplan that the 31-year-old wasn’t able to properly review the huge number of documents in his case while he was locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.