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Leo Schwartz

Sam Bankman-Fried insists on pre-trial release from detention center, citing internet access problems

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Since a federal judge revoked Sam Bankman-Fried's bail in early August and sent him to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the disgraced FTX founder has been petitioning the court for a pre-trial release, claiming he cannot prepare for his October trial from inside jail.

On Friday, Bankman-Fried's lawyers filed a new letter with the judge that claims prosecutors have failed to provide the defendant with the computer resources necessary for him to parse millions of pages of material related to the stunning collapse of the crypto exchange last November.

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