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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has requested that the identities of the two people who helped to secure his bail be kept hidden, Bloomberg reports.Lawyers for the disgraced former billionaire have argued that there is no need for the public to be aware of the identities of the guarantors, saying that allowing so would unnecessarily place the two individuals under the media spotlight.”If the two remaining sureties are publicly identified, they will likely be subjected to probing media scrutiny, and potentially targeted for harassment, despite having no substantive connection to the case,” Bankman-Fried’s lawyers wrote in a letter filed on Tuesday.”Consequently, the privacy and safety of the sureties are ‘countervailing factors’ that significantly outweigh the presumption of public access to the very limited information at issue.”Bankman-Fried was released on $250 million bond last month, one of the largest bail packages in US history. One of the terms …
