Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and dilapidated CEO of collapsed crypto change FTX, bear lost their third dispute to make a choice up their client out of jail earlier than the October 3 trial date, in accordance with a CoinDesk file.

In a apt doc filed Wednesday with the U.S. District Courtroom, Southern District of Contemporary York, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys acknowledged the originate change into once “valuable for preparation of [his] protection” due to the complexity of the case. On Thursday, Judge Lewis Kaplan disagreed, pronouncing, “the factors in this case are reasonably easy: Modified into once there fraud, or wasn’t there?”

The resolve did train that the apt group may perchance also bear pick up entry to to Bankman-Fried from 7:00 a.m. each day of the trial in a petite victory.

Judge Kaplan change into once furthermore skeptical of the protection’s claims that Bankman-Fried didn’t pose a flight threat: “I’ve wondered about that. Your client may perchance even be having a take into tale at a truly long sentence” and that the 31-one year-historic may perchance also resolve to fly if things began to “take into tale bleak.”

Bankman-Fried change into once first and most most necessary out on bond but change into once taken into custody in August when a resolve ruled he change into once seemingly tampering with witnesses. The court ruled against a quiz for Bankman-Fried’s non permanent originate on September 12 but acknowledged that resolution didn’t prohibit his attorneys from making every other quiz. An appeals court then declined to reverse the resolution final week.