Do not count on to see any extra random, headscratching tweet from SBF ever once more.

On Thursday, the federal decide overseeing Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial threatened to revoke the FTX co-founder’s $250 million bail package deal and throw him in jail if extreme restrictions weren’t positioned on his use of digital units and apps.

As Bloomberg experiences, US District Decide Lewis Kaplan mentioned at a Thursday listening to on his bail circumstances in downtown Manhattan that he didn’t assume a authorities proposal that may restrict Bankman-Fried to 1 monitored cellular phone and laptop computer and prohibit his use of Zoom to speaking with counsel was ample.

WATCH: Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a listening to on his bail circumstances in federal courtroom in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/wWLmswBEz2

— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) February 16, 2023

The listening to follows concern over Bankman-Fried’s reported use of encrypted messaging app Sign to contact FTX’s US normal counsel, a possible witness within the case, and his use of digital non-public networks. Each applied sciences may permit him to defend his communications from the federal government.

Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, who has argued his shopper’s use of apps and VPNs was “harmless” referred to as the federal government proposal “Draconian” on Thursday, prompting a fiery response from the decide.

“It isn’t the federal government who contacted the witness,” Kaplan admonished Cohen. The decide added that, although the listening to wasn’t over bail revocation, “it may get there ultimately.”

Kaplan additionally expressed skepticism about Bankman-Fried’s laughable declare that he used a VPN to look at soccer, together with the Superbowl, whereas out on bail at his mother and father’ home in Palo Alto, California.

“So what he was doing was sitting in California in the US utilizing the VPN to create the impression that he was going to make use of this worldwide subscription from exterior the US,” the decide steered. Cohen responded that he had wished he had purchased his shopper a tv from Finest Purchase as a result of “there isn’t a tv in the home.”

Additionally, the decide seems to share our humorousness: two days in the past we steered that billionaire SBF was utilizing VPNs to obtain bittorents motion pictures.

*BANKMAN-FRIED BANNED FROM USING VPN’S WHILE OUT ON BAIL

so he will not obtain bittorrent motion pictures any extra?

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 14, 2023

Cohen mentioned Bankman-Fried understood what was at stake and that he was “on trial for his life” and added “There isn’t a margin for error,” regardless that SBF has repeatedly and clearly confirmed he believes his Democratic donations and political connections give him a mile-wide margin for not solely error however to do no matter he needs. “If there may be any violation of no matter order the courtroom fashions, we’ll take care of a wholly completely different continuing.”

Kaplan gave the events till the tip of subsequent week to submit proposals for learn how to modify the bail package deal, suggesting that the protection rent a guide who can advise the decide on learn how to deal with the problems.