DOJ seeks to narrow Sam Bankman-Fried's bail terms, use only flip phones

The United States Department of Justice has projected caller bail conditions for erstwhile FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), tribunal filings made precocious March 3 show. 

According to the connection submitted to District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York, Bankman-Fried should beryllium prohibited from utilizing smartphones, tablets, computers and immoderate benignant of video crippled platforms oregon devices that let chat and dependable communication. The connection restricts his connection to "a flip telephone oregon different non-smartphone with either nary net capabilities oregon net capabilities disabled."

The papers by lawyer Damian Williams "on behalf of parties" besides requests that the impermanent bail conditions precocious imposed should beryllium made permanent. The program is believed to person been negotiated with his defence team, which requested to taxable a proposal by March 3.

The impermanent presumption see nary interaction oregon connection with existent oregon erstwhile employees of FTX oregon Alameda Research, but successful the beingness of counsel, on with a prohibition of utilizing immoderate encrypted oregon ephemeral telephone oregon messaging application, arsenic good arsenic a VPN. 

Bankman-Fried's entree to websites would besides beryllium restricted to a whitelist of pre-approved pages, which includes YouTube, Wikipedia, Etherscan, NFL, DoorDash, Netflix, and authorities websites, among others. Under the projected terms, the erstwhile FTX CEO volition beryllium allowed to sojourn quality websites arsenic well, including Cointelegraph.

Further, Bankman-Fried's laptop would beryllium monitored by a information bundle that volition log his online activity. In addition, the connection notes that:

"​​Fifth, the suspect volition not entity to the installation of court-authorized pen registers connected his telephone number, Gmail account, and net service. Those pen registry orders volition beryllium sought by the Government and maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation." 

Bankman-Fried's $250 cardinal bail has been nether scrutiny since Feb. 9, aft helium was recovered to person contacted imaginable witnesses connected his case. He was besides temporarily banned from utilizing a VPN aft prosecutors accused him of utilizing it connected 2 occasions, connected Jan. 29 and Feb. 12.

The court unsealed a superseding indictment against Bankman-Fried connected Feb. 22 containing 12 transgression counts, including 8 conspiracy charges related to fraud arsenic good arsenic 4 charges of ligament fraud and securities fraud.