SBF claims jail request for him violates freedom of speech
Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of defunct crypto exchange FTX, is fighting a US prosecutor’s attempt to revoke his $250 million bond and put him in jail. The request was made in response to the New York Times’ publication of excerpts from Caroline Ellison’s diary, who was the former CEO of the FTX-affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. In the case against Bankman-Fried, Ellison has already pleaded guilty to fraud and is working with the prosecution. The prosecutors claim that Bankman-Fried gave the newspaper the journal entries and spoke with the writer who wrote the story to intimidate Ellison, who might be called a witness during his trial and possibly sway the jury. You might also like: FTX’s former CEO SBF allegedly leaked ex-lover’s diary Bankman-Fried’s attorneys responded by asserting that his interactions with the reporter were not intended to threaten Ellison or affect the jury pool. In its place, they argued that he had the right to offer...