- There are issues with installing special photo taking software on his parents’ cell phones
- The software, which should take pictures of them every 5 minutes, doesn't work
Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers asked the court in the Southern District of New York for a third extension on enforcing his bail terms, pointing to issues with installing special image taking software on his parents’ cell phones, CoinTelegraph wrote, citing an April 19 court filing. The phones were to take pictures of the users every five minutes, which they couldn’t.
SBF’s lawyers, Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell, pointed out they had fulfilled “all of the bail conditions set forth in the court order” except monitoring the use of their client’s parents’ cell phones.
No solution found – yet
The legal team said they may have found a solution to monitor the cell phones. They told the judge they needed a two-day extension to do more tests on the monitoring software, which passed without effect.
In the meantime, they asked that Bankman-Fried’s parents be allowed to keep using their current phones.
CoinTelegraph talked to experts, who stated that the monitoring software being used and the phone models could be incompatible. Due to improved security measures, newer phone models can’t install certain monitoring tools. For example, the most recent iPhone models must be “jailbroken” to install monitoring software.
Great concern with SBF’s access to cell phones
The judge in SBF’s case recently alarmed over his access to cell phones. Judge Lewis Kaplan pointed out that the defendant had grown a “garden of electronic devices” with internet access at his parents’ home. He warned that the defendant most likely tried to influence witness testimony.
At the beginning of March, the judge proposed that Bankman-Fried be banned from using tablets, smartphones, computers, and any other devices allowing voiceover and chat. He suggested the defendant’s communication be limited to a non-smartphone with disabled internet capabilities or no such capabilities at all.
A solution could involve getting different cell phones for Bankman-Fried’s parents, on which the monitoring software can be installed.
