Though still in custody and not free to roam, Sam Bankman-Fried will have a bit of a reprieve on Aug. 22 following a judge's order allowing him to remain in the courthouse.
A federal judge overseeing former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal case has issued an order allowing Sam Bankman-Fried to meet with his legal team outside of jail for roughly seven hours.
In an Aug. 21 filing in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that Sam Bankman-Fried, who also goes by SBF, will be allowed to meet with his counsel in the cell block attorney room at the courthouse on Aug. 22 around one of his scheduled hearings. Kaplanon Aug. 11, sending the former FTX CEO to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn likely until the conclusion of his criminal trials.
According to the order, SBF will be allowed access to “one Internet-enabled laptop and one WiFi device” from roughly 8:30 AM EST until 3:00 PM while meeting with counsel. His lawyers hadto release SBF for five days every week through his trials in order for him to prepare for the case. However, Kaplan’s order suggested only a one-time release within the confines of the courthouse on Aug. 22, with another decision likely pending based on a response from the Department of Justice.
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