Sam Bankman-Fried needs a higher Adderall dose to focus at his fraud trial and decide whether to testify in his own defense, his lawyers said.
In a late Sunday letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said the one dose of Adderall the FTXis being given at jail early each morning to treat his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder wears off by the time the trial day starts.
“As we approach the defense case and the critical decision of whether Mr. Bankman-Fried will testify, the defense has growing concern that because of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s lack of access to Adderall he has not been able to concentrate at the level he ordinarily would,” his lawyers wrote.of dollars in FTX customer funds kicked off on Oct. 3 in Manhattan federal court, Bankman-Fried has been seen during testimony typing on a laptop and whispering to his lawyers.
But Bankman-Fried has defied the conventional playbook for white collar defendants of remaining largely silent. He published blog posts a month after his Dec. 12, 2022 arrest, and shared Ellison’s private writings with a New York Times reporter. Kaplan said that likely amounted to witness tampering on Aug. 11 and remanded him to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
In their letter, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers proposed he be given a 12-hour extended release dose of Adderall before he leaves for the courthouse each morning. They said an MDC lawyer had not responded to their emails or calls.Read Next / Editor's Picks
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