Bankman-Fried Judge Threatens Jail Over Use of Apps, VPNs (2)

The federal judge overseeing Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial threatened to revoke the FTX co-founder’s $250 million bail package if severe restrictions weren’t placed on his use of electronic devices and apps.

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan made clear at a Thursday hearing that he didn’t think a government proposal that would limit Bankman-Fried to one monitored cell phone and laptop and restrict his use of Zoom to communicating with counsel was sufficient.

The hearing follows weeks of concern over Bankman-Fried’s use of encrypted messaging app Signal to contact FTX’s US general counsel, a potential witness in the case, and ...