Federal prosecutors have urged U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to modify Sam Bankman-Fried’s bond agreement, saying the disgraced crypto mogul may have engaged in “witness tampering” by sending encrypted messages to a potential witness. In a four-page filing put forward Friday, prosecutors said Bankman-Fried had tried to contact “the current General Counsel of FTX US” through the encrypted messaging application Signal and email on January 15. While identified in the filing only as “Witness-1,” Ryne Miller is FTX US’s current counsel. “I would really love to reconnect and see if there’s a way for us to have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other,” U.S. prosecutors allege Bankman-Fried wrote. (Decrypt)
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