The former FTX CEO-turned criminal defendant's team said they have “no faith” in prosecutors’ claimed efforts to address his jailhouse woes.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal defense team failed to win any major concessions Wednesday in a hearing that focused on his claimed difficulties in preparing for his October trial from the confines of a Brooklyn lockup.
“It’s just the fact of the reality that we haven’t been able to make effective use of our client’s time,” one of Bankman-Fried’s lawyers, Christian Everdell, said. “We’re at that point – we need” him to be released. Held over teleconference, the relatively speedy hearing also saw Judge Kaplan reject other major requests put forward by the defense. When they told him the government was dumping millions of discovery documents on them weeks ahead of the trial – at a time when their locked-up client could not actually review the material – he denied their request to preclude all documents produced after July 1.
At one point Judge Kaplan proposed to fix Bankman-Fried’s battery woes with a seemingly obvious solution: “It’s called an extension cord.” But federal prosecutors said the Bureau of Prisons would not let an extension cord into the jail for security and safety reasons.in early August for attempted witness tampering. At the time Judge Kaplan said the 31-year old defendant was “willing to risk crossing the line” and revoked his bail, an uncommon move in criminal proceedings.
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