FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been denied a bid for pretrial release ahead of his trial in the United States on fraud charges stemming from the implosion of his cryptocurrency empire.Bankman-Fried’s lawyers had argued that conditions at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center had prevented him from preparing an adequate defence ahead of his October 3 trial.On Tuesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that any difficulties Bankman-Fried faced in reviewing prosecutors’ evidence against him were “of his own making”.
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