As FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and his lawyers continue to protest his detention ahead of the start of his trial next week, a judge has once again crushed his hopes for at least temporary freedom.
District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday denied a request from Bankman-Fried’s lawyers to allow their client more freedom of movement. Even as they scramble to ready his defense for the trial beginning Tuesday.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Repeated Failures to Gain Release
The judge’s ruling marks the second time in a week that a plea for pre-trial release has failed. Last Thursday, a federal appeals court refused to overturn the August 11 revocation of Bankman-Fried’s bail.
According to a CBS News report, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, told the judge that his client’s confinement in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn precludes their working together effectively.
Cohen and Bankman-Fried have documents and files to review, evidence to analyze, and strategies to discuss. That is all but impossible while the FTX founder sits in a prison that cannot even meet his dietary needs, the legal team argues.
Per the CBS News report, Cohen and Kaplan differed sharply on the question of flight risk. Cohen argued that his client does not present any risk at all.
But Kaplan reportedly disagreed, in the strongest terms. Arguing that with things looking so grim for Bankman-Fried, there is no telling what he may do:
“Your client, if there is a conviction, could be looking at a very long sentence. If things begin to look bleak—maybe he feels that now—if that were to happen and if he had the opportunity, maybe the time would come that he would seek to flee.”
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