A joint letter filed Tuesday details the amount of access the FTX founder has to discovery material.
Once one of the world's most powerful crypto executives, Sam Bankman-Fried is now reduced to bickering with prosecutors over his access to a laptop computer.
The jailed founder of the collapsed FTX exchange has access to a laptop seven days a week and three hard drives with defense material at all times, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a letter Tuesday. The prosecutors were responding to a federal judge's order for a report on the conditions Bankman-Fried faces while detained at the Manhattan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
After a virtual hearing last week, Kaplan ordered the parties to put together a report on these issues., prosecutors said Bankman-Fried now has access to an air-gapped laptop for 11 hours a day on weekdays and 7.5 hours a day on weekends and holidays. Bankman-Fried also has access to hard drives with defense material at all times.
Twice a week, Bankman-Fried has access to an internet-enabled laptop. Defense attorneys had previously raised issues about the battery life and weak internet connection, but Tuesday's letter said the defense team had provided a new battery that"has approximately 8 hours battery life," and the internet speed over the course of a day ranged from 7.5 megabits per second to 34 mbps.
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