Sassoon cited the “defendant’s history of obstruction in the form of setting auto deletion” in communications related to FTX and the use of a VPN to subvert monitoring.

In a hearing before US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday, Assistant US Attorney Danielle Sassoon cited multiple instances of the FTX founder actively communicating with the media and alleges he was a source for multiple stories – part of an “ongoing campaign with the press that has now crossed a line,” she said. They said last week that Bankman-Fried, 31, had attempted to discredit their star witness, Caroline Ellison, who is expected to testify against him at his trial in October. Prosecutors accused Bankman-Fried of leaking his former girlfriend and business partner’s personal writings to the New York Times. A federal judge issued a gag order on former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, restricting his ability to speak publicly about his case, after US prosecutors asked a federal judge to jail him over allegations of witness-tampering.

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