Judge on Bankman-Fried: ‘Why am I being asked to turn him loose?’
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge intimated on Thursday that Sam Bankman-Fried might deserve to be jailed pending trial after prosecutors suggested that the indicted FTX co-founder might have tampered with witnesses while out on bail. At a hearing in Manhattan federal court, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan challenged prosecutors on their willingness to let Bankman-Fried remain under house arrest with his parents, despite signs the former billionaire might have broken the law while out on $250 million bail. The judge questioned whether prosecutors’ proposal to largely ban Bankman-F…