SBF’s legal team has filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit seeking to get the former FTX CEO out on bail again.
, or SBF, have filed an appeal claiming the former FTX CEO’s bail was revoked “in retaliation for him exercising his First Amendment rights” and not witness tampering as alleged.
In an Aug. 25 filing in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, SBF’s legal team filed a motion seeking to have him released before his October trial. According to his lawyers, Judge Lewis Kaplan revoking SBF’s bail on Aug. 11 was “improper,” claiming his actions of speaking to the press and releasing information about former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison were part of his First Amendment rights.
According to the appeal, SBF’s lawyers questioned the manner of “intimidation or threats” against Ellison by the former FTX CEO speaking to reporters at The New York Times, which led to some of her private journals being published in an article. The New York Timesin the case, claiming the public had a “legitimate interest” in the information and citing similar First Amendment concerns.
“Under prevailing precedent, Mr. Bankman-Fried’s communications to the Times reporter were protected First Amendment activity,” said the Aug. 25 appeal. “Neither the Government nor the trial court have cited any case law, and the defense is aware of none, where a defendant’s provision of newsworthy information to a journalist has ever been construed as witness tampering.”
SBF has denied he was involved in witness tampering after prosecutors moved to revoke his bail following his alleged sharing of Caroline Ellison’s diary with The New York Times.
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