Sam Bankman-Fried's bail conditions still too lenient, says judge

On Mar 10, Reuters reported that the U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has expressed concerns implicit the projected bail conditions for erstwhile FTX cryptocurrency speech laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried. 

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As antecedently reported by Cointelegraph connected March 4, U.S. territory justice Lewis Kaplan serving connected the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York projected that Bankman-Fried beryllium prohibited from utilizing smartphones, tablets, computers and immoderate video crippled platforms oregon devices that let chat and dependable communication. The connection said that Bankman-Fried’s connection should beryllium constricted to “a flip telephone oregon different non-smartphone with either nary net capabilities oregon net capabilities disabled.”

However, astatine a March 10 hearing, Reuters reported that Kaplan expressed interest astatine the proposal, suggesting that Bankman-Fried was "inventive," and could find ways to evade the restrictions and covertly pass with others electronically.

Kaplan reportedly shared:

Christian Everdell, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, assured the tribunal that helium volition enactment with prosecutors connected a caller connection to code the judge's concerns. 

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Bankman-Fried is presently warring to debar jailhouse until his scheduled fraud proceedings connected October 2, but prosecutors person charged him with stealing billions of dollars successful FTX lawsuit funds, making tens of millions of dollars successful amerciable governmental donations, and tampering with witnesses.

Bankman-Fried's $250 cardinal bail has been the taxable of scrutiny since February 9, pursuing revelations that helium had attempted to interaction imaginable witnesses successful his case. Additionally, helium was temporarily prohibited from utilizing a VPN aft prosecutors alleged that helium had utilized it twice, connected January 29 and February 12.

Three of Bankman-Fried's erstwhile closest associates, including erstwhile Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, former FTX exertion main Gary Wang, and former FTX engineering main Nishad Singh, person entered blameworthy pleas and are providing assistance to prosecutors.