- Prosecutors wrote Friday to a decide in regards to the modifications to Bankman-Fried’s situations of launch.
- The letter stated he can use a flip cellphone or non-smartphone gadget with “no web capabilities.”
- The FTX founder and his dad and mom have been required to put in safety software program on their units.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been allowed to make use of a flip cellphone with “no web capabilities” as a part of modifications to his situations of launch.
In a letter despatched Friday to US District Decide Lewis Kaplan, seen by Insider, prosecutors outlined the modifications that may restrict Bankman-Fried to textual content messages and voice calls following allegations that he had talked to former staff on Sign, an encrypted messaging app.
His use of Sign and digital non-public networks (VPNs) angered the decide, who threatened to revoke Bankman-Fried’s bail forward of his October trial over the collapse of the cryptocurrency trade.
He’s now allowed to make use of “a flip cellphone or different non-smartphone with both no web capabilities or web capabilities disabled,” prosecutors wrote. Nonetheless, Bankman-Fried can not talk with “present or former staff of FTX or Alameda.”
He also can use a laptop computer with restricted performance and should go online by way of a VPN that enables entry to web sites for 2 functions: to arrange for his protection, and people who prosecutors deem pose no hazard. These websites embody Netflix, Doordash, Uber Eats, Main League Baseball, and the Nationwide Soccer League.
Safety software program logging his on-line actions should be put in and prosecutors have the correct to do periodic checks.
Bankman-Fried, who pleaded not responsible, was launched on a $250 million bond sponsored by two males who seem to have ties to Stanford College, the place Bankman-Fried’s dad and mom work. He’s confined to his dad and mom’ home with a monitoring gadget round his ankle.
His dad and mom are additionally required to supply sworn statements itemizing serial numbers and MAC addresses for his or her respective iPhones, Apple laptops, and a shared desktop iMac. They will even be required to put in safety software program on their units that may take periodic movies and selfies of them, the letter said.
Representatives for Bankman-Fried did not instantly reply to a request for remark from Insider made outdoors regular working hours.
