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Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-bankrupt<\/a> crypto exchange FTX, had his bail revoked ahead of his October trial, US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan said on Friday.<\/p>\n The decision came after allegations that Bankman-Fried leaked the diary of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of FTX\u2019s investment-arm Alameda Research, to the New York Times. Kaplan announced the decision in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n Bankman-Fried is facing a number of charges<\/a>, including defrauding FTX investors, from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Southern District of New York\u2019s attorney\u2019s office. He plead not guilty<\/a> to U.S. criminal charges earlier this year.<\/p>\n Initially, Bankman-Fried requested access to Google Drive, which he said was \u201cfor discovery,\u201d Inner City Press reported that Assistant US Attorney Danielle Sassoon said<\/a> on Friday at the hearing. \u201cThen he used it to give Ms. Ellison\u2019s documents to the New York Times.\u201d<\/p>\n In a July 26 hearing, Kaplan inhibited Bankman-Fried from speaking publicly about his case, six days after the New York Times article on Ellison\u2019s diary was published<\/a>.<\/p>\n He was formerly under house arrest at his parents\u2019 home in Palo Alto, Calif., on a $250 million bond, since his December 2022 arrest, but is now facing repercussions for allegedly intimidating witnesses like Ellison.<\/p>\n The federal judge said a gag order wasn\u2019t sufficient given Bankman-Fried\u2019s repeated misbehavior for crossing \u201ca line<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Kaplan said<\/a> during the hearing there is a \u201cpossibility that he will be detained at the [The Metropolitan Detention Center], not on anyone\u2019s list of five star facilities.\u201d But noted Bankman-Fried may be able to have a \u201cdedicated laptop\u201d at the jail in Brooklyn, New York, for nine to 11 hours a day.<\/p>\n In late December, Ellison and former FTX co-founder Gary Wang plead guilty<\/a> to multiple charges and accepted plea agreements that offer reduced sentencing in exchange for cooperating with U.S. authorities.<\/p>\n This is a developing story and may be updated as more information arises. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n