{"id":174800,"date":"2023-10-16T07:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T02:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=174800"},"modified":"2023-10-16T07:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T02:06:39","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-requests-long-acting-adderall-to-focus-during-trial-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-requests-long-acting-adderall-to-focus-during-trial-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried requests long-acting Adderall to focus during trial – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has asked a United States judge for long-release Adderall, saying he\u2019s finding it hard to concentrate properly during his criminal trial.<\/p>\n

In an Oct. 15 letter to New York District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried\u2019s lawyers asked if Bankman-Fried could take a \u201c12-hour extended-release 20mg dose of Adderall\u201d before he\u2019s transported to trial on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n

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SBF’s lawyer asked the judge to get Sam more adderall on Friday so he can focus.<\/p>\n

They want extended release so he doesn’t lose focus during court sessions.<\/p>\n

\u2014 NFTNick.eth (@allnick) October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lawyers added that Bankman-Fried\u2019s lack of the prescribed stimulant during trial hours means he\u2019s \u201cnot been able to concentrate at the level he ordinarily would\u201d and wouldn\u2019t be able to \u201cmeaningfully participate\u201d in presenting his defense.<\/p>\n

The former FTX CEO has been \u201cdoing his best to remain focused during the trial\u201d despite his lack of medication during trial hours, the letter added.<\/p>\n

Even if Bankman-Fried takes the requested medication, there\u2019s \u201cno way of knowing at present whether the extended-release dose will be effective,\u201d his lawyers said.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/em><\/strong>Caroline Ellison wanted to step down but feared a bank run on FTX<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

They requested the court stop the trial for one day \u2014 on Tuesday, Oct. 17 \u2014 if Bankman-Fried was either unable to take the long-release dose or if the medication didn\u2019t work so they could \u201cfind a solution that will work for the remainder of [the] trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alternatively, the lawyers requested that Judge Kaplan permit them to provide Bankman-Fried with his prescription of Adderall at the District Court during the trial.<\/p>\n

The lawyers claimed they had attempted to solve the issue with the Bureau of Prisons, but had not received a response to \u201cnumerous emails and voice messages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Magazine: <\/em><\/strong>Blockchain detectives \u2014 Mt. Gox collapse saw birth of Chainalysis<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has asked a United States judge for long-release Adderall, saying he\u2019s finding it hard to concentrate properly during his criminal trial. In an Oct. 15 letter to New York District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried\u2019s lawyers asked if Bankman-Fried could take a \u201c12-hour extended-release 20mg dose of Adderall\u201d before he\u2019s transported to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-174800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174803,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174800\/revisions\/174803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}