In a Thursday letter, federal prosecutors countered arguments made by Harvard Law School professor emeritus Laurence Tribe and Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorneys who were advocating against the detention of Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder. The prosecutors urged a Manhattan federal judge to uphold the detention, asserting that it did not violate Bankman-Fried’s constitutional rights.
Assistant U.S. attorney of the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, elaborated on the grounds for their stance, stating that, “The record here establishes that the defendant went beyond benignly exercising a constitutional right to speak to the press—he took covert steps intended to improperly discredit a trial witness and taint the jury pool.”
There was a noteworthy response from the government to Professor Tribe’s involvement in the ongoing legal dispute. They described the letter from the Harvard professor emeritus as an “amicus brief without a request for leave to do so.” This suggests that they perceive his contribution to the defense as being out of the ordinary procedural protocol.
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