Who’s next for comeuppance?

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Sun, 13/08/2023 - 00:30
Updated
Sun, 13/08/2023 - 00:30
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried ordered to jail Does this make your day? Daily Beast: The luck ran out for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday, when a New York judge ordered that he be confined to jail in advance of his October trial. The former billionaire had repeatedly angered both prosecutors and the court while out on bail following his arrest in December. Most recently, he leaked documents to The New York Times about his former lover Caroline Ellison, who once ran Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund and is likely to be a witness in his trial. Prosecutors framed the leaks as a possible attempt at witness tampering, both by intimidating Ellison and influencing public perception of her in the media. An assistant U.S. attorney argued in court last month that there was “no set of conditions short of detention to ensure the safety of the community.” Judge Lewis Kaplan agreed that defendant Bankman-Fried has a right to try and repair his reputation. “But I find that there is a practical possibility [leaking documents] was intended to have [witnesses] back off.” Who else wants to play chicken with the courts? Specifically, with Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge assigned to Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case? On Friday, Chutkan issued a protective order following a hearing that special counsel Jack Smith requested a week ago after Trump “posted a message to his social media platform, Truth Social, saying, ‘IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!'” ABC News reports. Trump famously, perhaps reflexively, tries…