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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has a court hearing that could decide whether the fallen cryptocurrency wiz must go to jail while he awaits trial.

The 31-year-old onetime crypto whiz had been living at his parent's California home since his December extradition from the Bahamas.

NEW YORK — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried left a federal courtroom in handcuffs Friday after a judge revoked his bail after concluding that the fallen cryptocurrency wiz had repeatedly tried to influence witnesses against him. Bankman-Fried looked down at his hands as Judge Lewis A. Kaplan explained at length why

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered Bankman-Fried's bail revoked after prosecutors said he'd tried to harass a key witness in his fraud case last month when he showed a journalist her private writings and in January when he reached out to the general counsel for FTX with an encrypted communication.

The 31-year-old onetime crypto whiz had been living at his parent's California home since his December extradition from the Bahamas.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has a court hearing that could decide whether the fallen cryptocurrency wiz must go to jail while he awaits trial.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has a court hearing that could decide whether the fallen cryptocurrency wiz must go to jail while he awaits trial.

Judge says crypto mogul tampered with witnesses

Prosecutors say Bankman-Fried tried to harass a key government witness. His lawyers say he did not. The judge agreed that he had.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sent to jail after a bail hearing in New York City