Sam Bankman-Fried still wants out over poor WiFi and laptop access
Lawyers of disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried say that a lack of sufficient WiFi and jail delays are hindering his ability to prepare for his upcoming court trial and he should therefore be granted pre-trial release. The court filing from September 8 is the second pre-trial release request Bankman-Fried has sought in the past week. Lawyers argued that although the curly-haired former billionaire was promised access to a laptop and a hard drive from 8am to 7pm on weekdays, that hasn’t been the reality. Jail proceedings like inmate head counts have shed hours of prep time already, they said. According to the filing, Bankman-Fried was held up from visiting rooms for two hours due to another inmate. Once he arrived, he wasn’t allowed to use his laptop without lawyers present, despite assurances that he would be. Additionally, once he did get access to the laptop , the internet was so slow that it took “10 minutes for the home page to load.” After an ent...