Bankman-Fried Loses Another Bid for Release Days Before Trial

Sam Bankman-Fried lost yet another bid to be released from a Brooklyn federal jail days before he goes on trial in one of the biggest white-collar criminal cases in US history.

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday rejected Bankman-Fried’s request to leave the Metropolitan Detention Center where he’s been for the last six weeks. The judge did make a provision for the founder of the FTX crypo platform to come to court early some days before trial.

Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have argued that the limited access to their client made it difficult to prepare for trial. They complained he’d been ...