'Why am I being asked to set him loose in this garden of electronic devices?' Judge Lewis Kaplan asked prosecutors.
A federal judge showed growing impatience Thursday with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's use of the internet while on bail, suggesting that incarceration might eventually be the most effective way to prevent him from communicating on electronic devices in ways that can't be traced.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos said a more"drastic alternative" would be to ban Bankman-Fried's use of all electronic devices, but he added that it would be difficult for him to prepare for a trial tentatively set for October if that were to occur. Federal prosecutors have told Kaplan that Bankman-Fried's communications indicate he may be trying to influence a witness with incriminating evidence against him.On Thursday, prosecutors asked Kaplan to more severely limit Bankman-Fried's use of electronic devices and the internet, including banning him from messaging applications and requiring the installation of a device-monitoring program on his cellphone and computer.
The judge mocked Bankman-Fried's use of an encrypted method to watch the game, noting that it was on any television. Cohen responded that there wasn't a TV in the house.
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