by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 14 – Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX on August 11 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, SBF's lawyers put in a letter from "a letter from defendant’s physician George K. Lerner, M.D., attesting that defendant should continue to receive the following medications and dosages to avoid a return of defendant’s symptoms of depression and ADHD: • Emsam 9mg/24hrs transdermal patch • Adderall 10mg tablet 3-4x/day." Letter on Patreon here
Judge Kaplan mentioned that he could consider allowing SBF to visit his lawyers' office. But no other MDC inmate has such an arrangement. Watch this site.
More on Substack here. Extended on Patreon here.
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