Prosecutors on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sought to revoke Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail closing week, alleging that he had attempted to discredit used Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison’s upcoming testimony in opposition to him.

In a letter to Resolve Lewis Kaplan on Monday, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said that the honest basis for the government’s quiz become once “extremely skinny” and relied carefully on assumptions and unsupported inferences.

The DOJ accused Bankman-Fried of leaking Ellison’s non-public diary to a Unusual York Events reporter, who published a July 20 article detailing her non-public musings about her relationship with the used FTX CEO and her misgivings about her position at Alameda.

Bankman-Fried’s lawyers claim that his contact with the reporter become once no longer an strive and intimidate a be aware or taint a jury pool, nonetheless merely an recount of his first modification honest to invent a stunning comment in a media yarn that related to him.

“The reporter become once already mindful of these paperwork because he had written an article two months earlier… Hence, Mr. Bankman-Fried shared copies of writings that the reporter curiously already knew about, and which had been no longer produced in discovery, to present his level of view and provide protection to his recognition,” they said.

They extra argued that the government itself become once the source for just a number of the disclosures made to the reporter, in step with the indisputable fact that the article in query said that prosecutors supposed to initiate up making willing just a few of its witnesses in August.

“No longer surprisingly, the published article become once vulgar to Mr. Bankman-Fried and favorable to Ms. Ellison. Hence, any purported “taint” to the jury pool (and we dispute that there has been any), has been to the detriment of Mr. Bankman-Fried,” they added.