Lawyers representing former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried have accepted a silence order regarding the criminal case.
The silence order against Sam Bankman-Fried was first requested on July 20, when he accused former business partner and witness Caroline Ellison of trying to interfere with a fair trial by publicly discrediting her. Lawyers representing SBF have accepted a silence order so that the criminal case is not affected. However, he said this should apply to other witnesses as well.
Included all witnesses in the criminal case
Bankman-Fried’s attorneys, Cohen & Gresser LLP, denied the charges in a July 22 letter to US District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of New York. However, he accepted a silence order as requested. A shutdown order is a legal order usually issued by a court to restrict information or comments from being made public or transmitted to any unauthorized third party.
In this case, SBF will not be able to make comments that discredit them by sharing confidential information of authorized names. In accepting compensation, SBF representatives also want the same silence order to be applied to all parties and witnesses who may be involved in the criminal case. They expressed the related issue as follows;
“However, we respectfully request that such exemption apply not only to Mr. Bankman-Fried but also to all ‘parties and witnesses’ – namely the Government and any potential witnesses in this case.”
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