Prosecutors are asking a judge to detain former FTX cryptocurrency exchange boss Sam Bankman-Fried after he allegedly leaked his former business partner’s personal information to the press in an attempt to discredit her as a witness as her potential fall testimony in his fraud trial approaches.
Prosecutors want Sam Bankman-Fried to be jailed after they accused him of witness-tampering.
Bankman-Fried allegedly leaked former girlfriend and business partner Caroline Ellison’s personal writing to the New York Times, multiple news outlets reported.
Prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan to detain Bankman-Fried until trial because of these allegations and others that have come up since the former crypto CEO was arrested in December on fraud charges, before being released after posting bail.
The former FTX CEO allegedly communicated with the media multiple times as part of an “ongoing campaign with the press that has now crossed a line,” Assistant US Attorney Danielle Sassoon said Wednesday, according to multiple outlets.
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$250 million. That’s the amount of bond Bankman-Fried was released on following his arrest in December. Since then, he’s been under house arrest in his parents’ California home preparing for trial.
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