Prosecutors Seeking Pretrial Incarceration of FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Blast His Defense’s First Amendment Argument: ‘Witness Tampering Is Not Constitutionally Protected Speech’
Crypto bro Sam Bankman-Fried, second largest Democrat donor after George Soros, is fighting the prosecutor’s motion for his pretrial incarceration in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) ahead of his October trial.
SBF’s indictment alleges that ‘he was the mastermind and leader of a multi-year criminal scheme that involved defrauding investors, lenders, and retail customers of billions of dollars, and spending fraud proceeds to corruptly influence United States politics’.
After he was granted bond on December 22, 2022, he has been testing the limits and conditions of his release – and may have pushed too far.
The motion by United States Attorney Damian Williams:
“The defendant’s attempts to tamper with witnesses and interfere with the Government’s and public’s right to a fair trial and the due administration of justice,
