Accused crypto conman Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid for release from jail ahead of upcoming trial
NEW YORK — Alleged crypto conman Sam Bankman-Fried was denied temporary release from a Brooklyn lockup Thursday before his upcoming trial on charges carrying more than a century in prison. At a brief court hearing, Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected arguments from the California man’s attorney, Mark Cohen, to release him from the Metropolitan Detention Center so he could ...