Former FTX CEO wants to exempt friends from security checks
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried wants his close friends to visit him at his parents’ home without undergoing security checks . On July 13 Bankman-Fried’s lawyers submitted a letter to New York District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, seeking an exemption for court-approved visitors from the security measures mandated in his bail conditions. The current bail conditions mandate the presence of a security guard at the residence to screen visitors for electronic devices and the requirement for visitors to sign an electronic visitor log. However, Bankman-Fried’s legal team argued that only his lawyers and employees of his contracted law firm are exempt from these checks. They urged the court to extend the same privileges to visitors approved by the court. The first page of Bankman-Fried’s attorneys’ letter to Kaplan | Source: CourtListener The submitted list, which prosecutors reviewed without objection, comprises “close friends and colleagues o...