NEW YORK — A New York City judge on Thursday extended his restrictive bail conditions for disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
At a Manhattan federal court hearing, which Bankman-Fried traveled from California to attend, Judge Lewis Kaplan left in place bail conditions, despite the feds’ agreeing with Bankman-Fried’s lawyers to let him use specific messaging applications while waiting for trial.
The judge was skeptical that Bankman-Fried — the onetime golden boy of the crypto world — couldn’t find another way to encrypt communications without access to apps like Signal.
