| Bankman-Fried
Bid for
Release for
MDC Jail Is
Rejected Again
as Oct 3 SDNY
Trial Looms
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 12 – Sam
Bankman-Fried of FTX on August
11, 2023 for tampering with
witnesses in the upcoming
trial against him was ordered
remained to jail.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan heard
from prosecutors that in
Putnam County Correctional
Facility, SBF could be given
access to discovery material
over the Internet.
Kaplan replied
that he assumed the defendant
would be in the Metropolitan
Detention Center in Brooklyn,
like fellow crypto-fraud
defendant Miles Guo and
others.
On August
12 Inner City Press, which
published the first book about
SBF's remand ("Crypto Creeps,"
here,
sample on Substack here)
found the Bureau of Prisons
notice, listing SBF in the
MDC.
On August 14, the
DOJ prosecutors docketed their
superseding indictment against
SBF, with Count 8, Campaign
Finance, dropped ostensibly at
the request of the Bahamas.
Inner City Press
published the superseding
indictment on its
DocumentCloud here.
On August 25
SBF's lawyers wrote in again,
saying two days a week in the
holding cell with a laptop is
not enough. Full letter on
Patreon here
On August 29, the
US filed that "the USMS has
also offered to transport the
defendant two days per week to
the 500 Pearl Street
cellblock" - full letter on
Patreon here
On September 5,
DOJ wrote in to say SBF will
come on Sept 6 - and that in
MDC he is exempt from prisoner
count - full letter on Patreon
here
On September 12,
Judge Kaplan denied SBF's
(repeated) request to be
released, photo of order here,
leaving the door (slightly?)
open to reapply if there are
new facts or more persuasive
arguments.
On August 22, SBF
was arraigned by SDNY
Magistrate Judge Sarah
Netburn. Thread
More August 22
details on Substack here
More book sample
on Substack here.
Extended on Patreon here.
Book here
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