Bankman-Fried’s lawyers blast trial prep time as ‘entirely inadequate’

Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday rejected as "entirely inadequate" the U.S. government's plan for letting the jailed founder of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange prepare for his October fraud trial. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, the lawyers said giving Bankman-Fried just two days a week, without a dedicated computer, to review the "extraordinary volume" of evidence violated his Sixth Amendment constitutional right to effective counsel and aid his defense. They said it also undermined Kaplan's expectation that Bankman-Fried would get at least nine hours a day to review evidence, and left their client no way to share materials with them through Google Docs or email.