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 <p class="is-style-lead">Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of FTX, is seeking space outside detention weekly to prepare for his upcoming trial. His attorneys rejected a two-day-a-week <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="release" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/release.html">release</a> proposal offered by the U.S. government.</p> 
 <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="detention-conditions-challenged">Detention conditions challenged </h2> 
 <p>Bankman-Fried has been in a New York jail for a week, but he is requesting to be <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="release" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/release.html">release</a>d five days a week so that he may work on his <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="defense" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/defense.html">defense</a> with his attorneys at the federal courthouse in Manhattan.</p> 
 <p>The disgraced entrepreneur’s attorneys claimed in a letter sent on Aug. 18 to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that Bankman-Fried couldn’t thoroughly review the massive amount of documents in his case while he was detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. </p> 
 <p>Bankman-Fried, 31, had his $250 million bail revoked last week for allegedly attempting to tamper with witnesses.</p> 
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 <p>In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, attorneys argue that granting Bankman-Fried only two days per week to analyze the “extraordinary volume” of evidence without a dedicated computer violated his constitutional right to adequate representation under the Sixth Amendment and hampered his <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="defense" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/defense.html">defense</a>.</p> 
 <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="strong-is-sbf-pushing-his-luck-strong"><strong>Is SBF pushing his luck?</strong></h2> 
 <p>ZFZ Law firm co-founder Michael Zweiback believes Bankman-Fried is “poking the judge,” and advised the former FTX chief to stop discussing the case.</p> 
 <p>“He is only undermining his ability to get a fair trial in front of a jury.”</p> 
 <p>Authorities charged Bankman-Fried with stealing billions of dollars from FTX clients to support a different hedge fund, engage in dangerous trading, purchase real estate, and contribute to political campaigns.</p> 
 <p>The most recent version of Bankman-Fried’s indictment, which contains seven accusations of fraud and conspiracy, will be presented before his arraignment on Aug. 22.</p> 
 <p>Bankman-Fried has refuted the charges and pleads not guilty. </p> 
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