Bankman-Fried loses bid for release from jail during trial

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Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, on Thursday lost his bid to be released from jail during his fraud trial starting next week. Bankman-Fried's lawyers on Sept. 25 asked U.S. Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan to grant him temporary release, arguing they would not otherwise be able to properly represent him. They said they would need to speak with him after each trial day to prepare for the next day's witnesses and testimony, which they could not do if he were taken back to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn at the end of each trial day.

FILE PHOTO: Former FTX Chief Executive Bankman-Fried at a courthouse in New York

They said they would need to speak with him after each trial day to prepare for the next day's witnesses and testimony, which they could not do if he were taken back to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn at the end of each trial day. They said Bankman-Fried had be given two laptops to review evidence delivered to him on hard drives in jail to help him prepare for trial, which they called "accommodations beyond those accorded to most detainees."

 

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