DEVELOPING: Crypto Scammer Sam Bankman-Fried Jailed Over Witness Tampering
Crypto FTX scammer Sam Bankman Fried was jailed for witness tampering.
Last week US Attorney Damian Williams sought pretrial incarceration of SBF for witness tampering:
“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, and his pattern of circumventing his bail conditions in that pursuit, demonstrate that no set of pretrial release conditions can adequately assure the safety of the community and that the defendant is unlikely to fully abide by any conditions of release.”
Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, ordered Bankman-Fried to jail on Friday.
CNBC reported:
Sam Bankman-Fried will head to jail on Friday after a judge sided with a request by federal prosecutors to revoke the FTX founder’s bail over alleged witness tampering.
