Prosecutors are exaggerating the quantity of entry FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried actually has to protection materials, his attorneys stated in a memo late Friday.
Bankman-Fried continues to lack first rate web entry when produced to a cell block on the Southern District of New York courthouse, and has not had anyplace close to the quantity of air-gapped pc entry that the Division of Justice has stated he would have, the letter signed by protection lawyer Mark Cohen stated.
Bankman-Fried’s protection crew has tried to have him quickly launched or given larger pc entry to work on his protection, saying his Sixth Modification rights have been being violated. Prosecutors have maintained that he has had entry to protection supplies after his bail was revoked final month on public security grounds.
Earlier this week, the DOJ filed a letter saying Bankman-Fried now had entry to a number of arduous drives with protection materials offered by the protection, an air-gapped laptop computer on daily basis of the week and an internet-enabled laptop computer with a brand new battery offered by protection attorneys.
Friday’s letter detailed these points, saying Bankman-Fried was solely in a position to load a single doc because of poor web speeds after being produced to the courthouse on Wednesday and granted entry to an internet-enabled pc.
“Successfully, Mr. Bankman-Fried had no entry to the web for the whole 5-hour interval,” the letter stated. “… Regardless of the Authorities’s efforts, there doesn’t look like a option to remedy the web entry downside within the cellblock. That implies that Mr. Bankman-Fried has no option to overview and search paperwork the invention database or the AWS database earlier than trial. The defendant can not put together for trial with these sorts of limitations.”
Bankman-Fried additionally does not have the complete period of time to make use of an air-gapped pc that prosecutors promised, Cohen stated.
“Virtually a whole month has handed since Mr. Bankman-Fried was remanded and we now have misplaced that point to successfully put together for trial,” the letter stated. “We subsequently respectfully reiterate our request that the Courtroom order Mr. Bankman-Fried’s short-term launch.”
