FTX's Bankman-Fried, seeking to avoid jail, denies witness tampering

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NEW YORK: Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted founder of the bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, on Tuesday (Aug 1) said he never sought to intimidate witnesses at his scheduled October fraud tr

at his scheduled October fraud trial, and there is no reason to jail him.

"Mr Bankman-Fried's contact with the New York Times reporter was not an attempt to intimidate Ms Ellison or taint the jury pool," his lawyer, Mark Cohen, wrote in the letter."It was a proper exercise of his rights to make fair comment on an article already in progress." He has been largely confined to his parents' Palo Alto, California home on a US$250 million bond since his December 2022 arrest.

Kaplan barred Bankman-Fried from speaking about the case and asked both sides to submit written arguments about possible jail.

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