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- Prosecutors want to send Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over alleged witness tampering.
- He showed a journalist diary entries by Caroline Ellison, an anticipated witness in his upcoming trial.
- Prosecutors want his home confinement revoked. The judge indicated he'll decide next week.
Prosecutors asked a federal judge Wednesday to send Sam Bankman-Fried to jail after he leaked his ex-girlfriend's private diary entries to the New York Times.
Assistant US Attorney Danielle Sassoon told US District Judge Lewis Kaplan at a court hearing that the leaks — in addition to Bankman-Fried's earlier contacts with the general counsel for FTX — amounted to witness tampering.
"No set of release conditions can ensure the safety of the community," Sassoon said at the hearing in Manhattan federal court.