Legal professionals for Sam Bankman-Fried have denied that he tried to intimidate witnesses in his legal trial by speaking to New York Occasions reporters and argued there isn’t any purpose to jail him.
In an Aug. 1 letter to Choose Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys claimed the prosecution’s try to revoke his bail and have him detained are “extraordinarily skinny” and closely depend on assumptions and innuendo.
They added Bankman-Fried’s contact with a New York Occasions reporter was not an try to intimidate former Alameda Analysis CEO Caroline Ellison or taint the jury pool and it was not sufficient to justify his detainment forward of the trial.
Bankman-Fried’s contact with reporters was a “correct train of his rights to make truthful touch upon an article already in progress, for which the reporter already had alternate sources,” the attorneys argued.
On July 28, the USA Division of Justice (DOJ) sought to revoke Bankman-Fried’s bail alleging his transfer to share Ellison’s diary with The New York Occasions was an try to harass and intimidate her. Ellison is predicted to testify towards SBF in his legal trial which is scheduled to happen in October this 12 months.
Bankman-Fried’s attorneys as a substitute urged that it was the federal government who shared Ellison’s diary with the New York Occasions saying it was implausible the federal government had nothing to do with the article.
“The language of the story itself, which discusses when the Authorities will start making ready its trial witnesses and describes paperwork that weren’t supplied to the reporter by Mr. Bankman-Fried, strongly signifies it was a supply,” the attorneys stated.
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