His lawyers wrote that their client shared Ellison’s writings with the reporter to defend his reputation, not to intimidate her.
Sam Bankman-Fried has appealed a decision to jail him ahead of his Oct. 3 trial over the collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, arguing he was being punished for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. for the 31-year-old former billionaire after finding probable cause to believe he tampered with witnesses., from before FTX’s November 2022 collapse. against him after pleading guilty to fraud.
In a motion for Bankman-Fried to be released from jail filed late on Friday night with the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, his lawyers wrote that their client shared Ellison’s writings with the reporter to defend his reputation, not to intimidate her.“It is unclear how a cooperating witness who has promised to testify against a defendant could be meaningfully threatened by nothing but their own statements being published by a reputable newspaper,” Bankman-Fried’s lawyers wrote.
In her writings, Ellison described feeling “unhappy and overwhelmed” with her job and “hurt/rejected” from her break-up with Bankman-Fried. Prosecutors said Bankman-Fried shared Ellison’s writings to harass her, and to dissuade others from testifying if they thought he would make them look bad in the press.
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