Bankman-Fried Wants to Prepare for Trial Outside Jail (1)

A week after being jailed, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking to be let out five days a week to work on his defense with his lawyers at the federal courthouse in Manhattan.

Lawyers for Bankman-Fried, who had his $250 million bail revoked last week for allegedly trying to tamper with witnesses, said in a Friday letter to US District Judge Lewis Kaplan that the 31-year-old wasn’t able to properly review the huge number of documents in his case while he was locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

“Just last week the government produced three quarters of ...