The U.S. government on Monday urged a judge to reject Sam Bankman-Fried's claim it went too far by insisting that the indicted founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange be banned from contacting his former colleagues.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, prosecutors also asked that a bail condition that prevents Bankman-Fried from accessing or transferring assets at FTX and his Alameda Research hedge fund be left in place.
Bankman-Fried, 30, has been free on $250 million bond and confined at his parents' home in California, after pleadingraised concerns In Monday's letter, prosecutors called the message an effort to "improperly influence" the general counsel, no matter how benign it might seem.
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