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- Prosecutors claim SBF contacted multiple current and former employees earlier this month.
- The DOJ asked the court to stop him from contacting employees via encrypted apps like Signal.
- Bankman-Fried's lawyers accused prosecutors of misrepresenting the message in a response filed Saturday.
The federal judge overseeing the case against Sam Bankman-Fried has temporarily granted the prosecution's request to bar the FTX cofounder from contacting current or former employees amid allegations of potential witness tampering.