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Lawyers for Samuel Bankman-Fried told a justice connected Monday, Sept. 5, that the accused FTX laminitis is inactive having issues reviewing grounds up of his fraud proceedings adjacent month.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, defence attorneys said Bankman-Fried was prematurely removed from visiting rooms astatine the Manhattan jailhouse wherever helium tin entree laptops loaded with documents. They said helium was denied entree to the laptops for important periods connected Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Defense lawyers said prosecutors had assured Kaplan that Bankman-Fried would beryllium allowed to reappraisal documents from 8 americium to 7 p.m. connected weekdays. However, they said helium was lone permitted to entree the laptop from 9 americium to 2:30 p.m. connected Friday, Sept. 1, since arriving astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center connected Aug. 31. They are present acrophobic helium volition proceed to lone person entree during these times arsenic helium has to “return for the count” successful his compartment earlier 3 pm.
“Losing 4 hours per time (20 hours per week) is not what the Government promised and is not workable,” Bankman’s lawyers wrote. They said helium inactive cannot entree the “full discovery” successful the case.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office successful Manhattan defended the accommodations made for Bankman-Fried frankincense acold successful their ain letter. They said helium had been provided with an internet-disabled laptop to reappraisal documents, entree to 2 outer hard drives successful his cell, and the quality to speech messages with lawyers done a jailhouse email system.
Prosecutors said the jailhouse laptop was disposable to Bankman-Fried successful the jail’s visiting country for implicit 8 hours connected Thursday and much than 9 hours connected Friday earlier his entree was curtailed implicit the weekend. They said the interruption connected Saturday was owed to Bankman-Fried’s attendance astatine play Jewish services.
“The Government has bent implicit backward to accommodate” the find needs of Bankman-Fried, prosecutors wrote. They accidental immoderate limits connected his entree stem from restrictions astatine the jailhouse and “are not owed to immoderate deficiency of effort” by the government.
Bankman-Fried has pleaded not blameworthy to charges that helium illegally diverted monolithic capitalist funds from his cryptocurrency speech FTX to bargain existent estate, donate wealth to politicians, and concern risky trades astatine Alameda Research, his cryptocurrency hedge money trading firm.
He is scheduled to spell connected proceedings successful aboriginal October. Bankman-Fried was brought to the U.S. earlier this period aft being extradited from the Bahamas, wherever FTX is based.
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