Lawyers representing Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) requested Judge Lewis Kaplan to issue an order permitting certain people to visit their client without the necessity of security checks.

Despite being allowed to reside at his parents’ house, the former CEO of FTX is subject to strict restrictions. He must wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, while a security guard must be present should he invite guests.

SBF’s Wish

Bankman-Fried’s attorneys sent an official letter to New York District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, asking the magistrates to enable people from their client’s inner cycle, dubbed as “close friends,” to meet him at his parents’ house in Palo Alto, California. They insisted that such gatherings could happen without a security guard being constantly around:

“On behalf of our client, Samuel Bankman-Fried, we write to respectfully request that the Court issue an order permitting the people on the attached list to visit his parents’ house without the need for a security guard to be present.”

Apart from “close friends,” the list of individuals includes colleagues of Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman (SBF’s parents). 

The lawyers also requested that the names of those people remain a secret for broad society out of security reasons. 

“Here, even assuming that the list of people can be considered a “judicial document,” the individuals’ privacy and safety interests greatly outweigh any presumption of access to the list and justify protecting their identities from public disclosure,” the letter reads.

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