Sam Bankman-Fried enlists Harvard Law's Tribe to stay out of jail

[Eugene]

Sam Bankman-Fried enlists Harvard Law's Tribe to stay out of jail (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is trying to stay out of jail for disclosing too much to the press, and enlisted one of the foremost American constitutional law experts for help.

Laurence Tribe, the longtime Harvard Law School professor, in a Tuesday night court filing said Bankman-Fried's disclosures to the New York Times about a former colleague appeared to fall short of the "clear and convincing evidence" of witness tampering needed to justify putting the 31-year-old behind bars.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan is considering whether to revoke Bankman-Fried's bail because he gave the Times personal writings of Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive of FTX-affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research.

Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to stealing billions of dollars in FTX customer funds to plug losses at Alameda. Ellison is expected to testify against the former billionaire at a scheduled Oct. 2 trial.

https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/sam-bankman-fried-enlists-harvard-175501834.html

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. When it came up the other day they were trying to remand him for this

I posted ... yeah, I'm not sure that's going to be enough for the judge.

We'll see.

Hard to do better than having Tribe on your side