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Courtroom sketch of Sam Bankman-Fried with his attorneys at his arraignment hearing in December.
  • Sam Bankman-Fried appealed a judge's decision to release the names of his bail guarantors.
  • Besides his parents, two as-yet-unidentified people cosigned the $250 million bail bond to get the FTX founder released from jail. 
  • Bankman-Fried's attorneys argued the potential of physical threats were reasons to keep their identities sealed.

Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't want the public to know the names of the wealthy backers who helped bail him out of jail while he awaits trial.