Lawyers for disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried are struggling to meet the conditions for their client’s bail, including a requirement that the phones used by Bankman-Fried’s parents be turned on “every In five minutes” take pictures of the user.
The problems with meeting Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions were described in a Letter In an April 19 court filing, the attorneys wrote:
,[…] We recently learned that the monitoring software installed on a new cellphone purchased for Mr. Bankman-Fried’s parents may not, in fact, automatically photograph the device’s user every five minutes as required by the order.
The letter states that the defense team has discovered “alternative solutions” to secure the parent’s cellphone in a way that is consistent with the bail conditions, without going into detail about those solutions.
“We are optimistic that we have found a solution, but need until the end of this week to conduct further tests on the monitoring software to confirm its capabilities,” the letter said. bail conditions.
Although the deadline has now passed, there have been no new reports on how the phone is being monitored.
In addition to issues related to phone monitoring, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys said that all of the bail conditions have now been successfully implemented.
The ban on access to the parent’s cellphone for Bankman-Fried was imposed after the judge in the case warned the former that the former might be an FTX boss. trying to influence witnesses If.
Among other things, Bankman-Fried has reportedly reached out to current FTX US Counsel Rain Miller, saying in a message sent via messenger app Signal:
“I’d really love to reconnect and see if there’s some way for us to have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least check things out with each other.” “
last month, it was informed of that Bankman-Fried’s parents had agreed to restrict their son’s access to electronic devices, including his own cellphone, under new bail conditions.
Sam Bankman was fried arrested in the bahamas In December, US prosecutors formally filed criminal charges against him. He was eventually extradited to the US where he was later released from prison. posting a $250m bond in a New York court.