Jailed!!!!!

Following repeated violations of his bail terms, including witness tampering, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplal has revoked Sam Bankman-Fried's bail and ordered him into detention:

A federal judge revoked FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail and sent him to jail Friday.

The decision ended a monthslong battle between the Justice Department and the onetime crypto entrepreneur over his behavior while awaiting trial on fraud charges.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said at a hearing in New York that Bankman-Fried pushed the limits of his bail conditions repeatedly and possibly committed a federal crime.

“There is probable cause to believe that the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice,” Kaplan said.

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After the judge concluded the hearing, Bankman-Fried handed his blazer, tie and shoelaces to his lawyers and then was handcuffed by U.S. Marshals. Bankman-Fried’s mother held her head and cried at times at the end of the hearing. She tried to approach her son in the courtroom but Marshals stopped her.

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Federal prosecutors in New York had asked the judge to jail Bankman-Fried after they said he attempted to tamper with witnesses and provided a New York Times reporter who visited his home with private writings of Caroline Ellison, his ex-girlfriend and former chief executive of his crypto-trading firm Alameda Research. The Times used the writings in a profile of Ellison, who is expected to testify against Bankman-Fried at trial.

“Faced with a series of conditions meant to limit the defendant’s use of the internet and the phone, the defendant pivoted to in-person machinations,” prosecutors wrote in a letter earlier this month.

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Prosecutors suggested Bankman-Fried could be detained at Putnam County Correctional Facility in New York, saying the jail would be able to provide him with a laptop and internet access to help him prepare for his defense.

Kaplan raised the possibility of jailing him at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where federal inmates in New York City are typically detained.

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MDC Brooklyn is not quite the hell-hole that MDC New York (Where Epstein alleged hung himself) is, but it's a rather unpleasant in its own right.

I'm thinking that this is the judge telling SBF, that if he continues to mess with the bull, he'll get the horns.

Having a pissed off judge is never good. 

This is what happens when a stupid crook comes to believe that they are a genius.

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