NY appeals court signals it won’t release FTX crypto exec SBF from jail pretrial: ‘He makes his own bed, he sleeps in it’

NEW YORK — A New York appeals court on Tuesday signaled it was unlikely to release Sam Bankman-Fried from jail pretrial, with one judge quipping the disgraced crypto entrepreneur had made the bed “he’s sleeping in” when he leaked the digital diary of the star witness in his case. Bankman-Fried, 31, has been at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since Aug. 11, when Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan revoked his staggering $250 million bond amid witness tampering allegations. Prosecutors requested the judge make the dramatic move amid suspicions the fallen FTX founder had leaked th…

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