Sam Bankman-Fried Attorneys Ask Judge to Remove Security Measures for ‘Close Friends’ Visiting

Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, arrives on the day of a hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York on Jan. 3, 2023. David Dee Delgado/Reuters

Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried on July 13 asked the judge overseeing his criminal prosecution to allow “close friends and colleagues” of the former FTX founder’s parents to visit him at his home without a security guard having to be present or conduct security checks.

Mr. Bankman-Fried was extradited to the United States from the Bahamas in December 2022 and is currently confined to his parent’s home in Palo Alto, California.