NEW YORK : The U.S. government on Monday urged a judge to reject Sam Bankman-Fried's claim it went too far by insisting that the indicted founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange be banned from contacting his former colleagues.
The requests came two days after Bankman-Fried's lawyers proposed letting their client access crypto assets and continue communicating with most of FTX's and Alameda's estimated 350 employees, some of whom they said could help his defense. Prosecutors previously raised concerns about witness tampering after Bankman-Fried on Jan. 15 sent an encrypted message over the Signal app to an FTX affiliate's general counsel, who could testify against him at a trial set to begin in October.
"The defendant's position of authority with respect to his former employees, combined with his recent outreach to a former employee about the case, raises a sufficient specter of witness tampering," prosecutors said.
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