FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Denies Witness Tampering, Seeks to Avoid Jailtime

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Denies Witness Tampering, Seeks to Avoid Jailtime

Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted founder of the bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, on Tuesday, said he never sought to intimidate witnesses at his scheduled October fraud trial, and there is no reason to jail him. In a letter to US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, Bankman-Fried said prosecutors mischaracterised his…