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Breaking: U.S. judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
 [NBC] I figured they'd give him bond and he'd flee. Looks like he's too big an asshole for even his corrupt Democrat friends to cover for. Give him the Epstein cell.Since his arrest in December, Bankman-Fried had been out on a $250 million bail. Sam Bankman-Fried will head to jail on Friday after a judge sided with a request by federal prosecutors to revoke the FTX founder’s bail over alleged witness tampering. Bankman-Fried will be remanded to custody directly from a court hearing in New York, where he will remain ahead of his criminal trial — which is due to begin on Oct. 2. Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Bankman-Fried’s request for delayed detention pending an appeal. Since his arrest in December, Bankman-Fried had been out on a $250 million bail package which requires him to remain at his parents’ Palo Alto, California house. Bankman-Fried’s court appearance on Friday is the latest in a series of pre-trial hearings related to the ex-billionaire’s continued dealings with the press — exchanges which the Justice Department characterizes as a "pattern of witness tampering and evading his bail conditions." Judge Kaplan previously issued a direct and stern warning to Bankman-Fried in July over his conversations with the media. Members of the press, including counsel for The New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, had filed letters objecting to Bankman-Fried’s detention, citing free speech concerns. Defense attorneys had similarly argued that Bankman-Fried was asserting his first amendment right and did not violate any terms of his bail conditions by speaking with journalists. The defense had also been hoping that the discovery process would help Bankman-Fried’s case.
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