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87 FTX cryptocurrency speech laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried, wearing situation clothing, stands betwixt his attorneys Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell successful Manhattan national tribunal wherever helium plead blameworthy to 7 transgression charges contained successful a caller indictment during a proceeding earlier U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn successful New York City, August 22, 2023 successful a courtroom sketch.
Jane Rosenberg | Reuters
In a proceeding successful New York connected Tuesday, lawyers for FTX laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried expressed concerns implicit their client's surviving conditions astatine Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, wherever he's being housed for alleged witness tampering.
Bankman-Fried's ineligible squad told a national justice that the erstwhile crypto billionaire was "subsisting connected breadstuff and water" and "sometimes peanut butter," due to the fact that the jailhouse can't accommodate his vegan diet. They said helium had lone been offered the modular "flesh meals."
Mark Cohen, an lawyer connected the case, added that Bankman-Fried had not received immoderate doses of his prescribed medicine Adderall, a attraction for attention-deficit/hyperactivity upset (ADHD), since being remanded to custody 11 days ago. Cohen said his lawsuit lone had a "limited" and "dwindling" proviso of Emsam, a transdermal spot for treating depression. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is presiding implicit the transgression trial, had told a jail to supply these prescribed medications to Bankman-Fried.
The proceeding connected Tuesday marked Bankman-Fried's archetypal clip successful tribunal since helium was sent to MDC earlier this month. He is owed to beryllium held determination until his transgression proceedings begins successful October. Bankman-Fried, donning a beige, jail-issued azygous and ankle shackles, pleaded not blameworthy to 7 charges, including fraud and conspiracy, successful a caller superseding indictment. He antecedently pleaded not blameworthy to much indictments related to the illness of his crypto empire.
An earlier petition from Bankman-Fried's lawyers included a missive from his psychiatrist, George Lerner, who has been treating the erstwhile FTX CEO since February 2019.
"Mr. Bankman-Fried has a past of Major Depressive Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," Lerner wrote.
Without his medication, Lerner warned, "Bankman-Fried volition acquisition a instrumentality of his slump and ADHD symptoms and volition beryllium severely negatively impacted successful his quality to assistance successful his ain defense."
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn said she would look into these issues instantly and purpose to person a solution by the extremity of the day.
Christian Everdell, different lawyer connected Bankman-Fried's ineligible team, told Netburn that determination are "serious Sixth Amendment issues" involving Bankman-Fried not being capable to hole and enactment successful his defence with lone six weeks until trial.
Bankman-Fried has frankincense acold been incapable to summation entree to the net and a laptop. His lawyers person argued that with their lawsuit successful jail, helium volition not beryllium capable to decently hole for his proceedings owed to the mountainous amounts of find documents lone accessible via a machine connected to the internet.
Judge Netburn said the defence would person to marque proceedings prep requests done Judge Kaplan.
On Monday, Judge Kaplan granted Bankman-Fried and his attorneys support to enactment retired of the courthouse astatine 500 Pearl Street successful Manhattan instantly pursuing Tuesday's arraignment. Judge Netburn said she would code concerns implicit Bankman-Fried's surviving conditions straight with the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons, which runs the jail.
Bankman-Fried had his bail revoked implicit his determination to leak backstage diary entries by his ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, to The New York Times. In galore of her idiosyncratic writings, Ellison expressed self-doubt and feelings of accent successful her relation arsenic the erstwhile caput of Bankman-Fried's failed crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research.
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