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Federal prosecutors are disputing erstwhile FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s claims that his entree to a peculiar laptop and different court-ordered accommodations person done small to assistance him hole his defence portion he's confined to prison, a Tuesday tribunal filing shows.
The missive to Judge Lewis Kaplan comes days aft Bankman-Fried's lawyers requested that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York supply their lawsuit with an internet-enabled laptop and entree to a cellblock astatine the national courthouse successful Manhattan, N.Y. 5 days a week successful the weeks starring up to his October trial.
Prosecutors argue, however, that the technological restrictions imposed connected Bankman-Fried are simply "inconveniences" that person not hindered his defence mentation and are indispensable arsenic a effect of his alleged "witness tampering."
"The defendant's unlimited entree to these resources was curtailed solely arsenic a effect of his ain transgression activities portion connected bail," prosecutors said successful the letter.
The prosecutors besides noted Bankman-Fried's entree to technological devices to reappraisal grounds against him already "go[es] beyond the find entree and reappraisal mostly disposable to pretrial detainees."
Bankman-Fried tin usage a laptop that is not connected to the net portion being held astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn. He besides has support to enactment from an internet-enabled laptop with Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat astatine a cellblock astatine the national courthouse successful Manhattan doubly a week. However, the erstwhile enforcement has refused to instrumentality to that cellblock arsenic helium seeks much extended pretrial merchandise measures, prosecutors said successful the filing.
The defense's complaints astir the exertion provided to their lawsuit travel astir a week aft Judge Kaplan denied Bankman-Fried's petition to sojourn his lawyers' offices successful Manhattan for 5 days a week, during the pb up to the October trial.
The erstwhile FTX enforcement mislaid his bail earlier this period aft Judge Kaplan ruled Bankman-Fried had circumvented his bail restrictions by attempting to intimidate erstwhile executives astatine his companies, including erstwhile Alameda Research co-CEO Caroline Ellison.
Bankman-Fried's entree to exertion is an contented that has been astatine the crux of respective hearings starring up to the trial. Prosecutors antecedently complained astir Bankman-Fried's usage of a VPN and Google Drive portion nether location apprehension astatine his parent's location successful California, alleging those tools helped him tamper with the government's witnesses.
Edited by Parikshit Mishra.
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