The former FTX CEO is trying to win back his freedom – at least temporarily – to prepare for his October trial.
Sam Bankman-Fried must remain in Brooklyn jail until federal appellate judges rule on his motion for pretrial release, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Bankman-Fried faces a litany of financial crimes related to his crypto exchange’s November 2022 collapse. He had been out on bail until the federal judge overseeing his caseThat appeal will be heard by the next available three-judge panel, the clerk of the courtWednesday while also denying his request for immediate release. The timeline on next steps was not immediately clear.
Bankman-Fried’s lawyers and the government have fought for weeks now over what the defense claims are subpar conditions in the Metropolitan Detention Center. They claim their client can’t properly prepare for his October trial from jailhouse bars, and thereforeto be released. That motion is separate from their appeal of Judge Lewis Kaplan’s revocation of Bankman-Fried’s bail.
Judge Lewis Kaplan last week asked both sides to brief him on “the current situation at the MDC” by this past Tuesday. But the government and the defense
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