The news organisations, which include the AP, Bloomberg, CNBC, WSJ publisher Dow Jones, the Financial Times, Insider, and WaPo, as well as a separate request from the New York Times, have requested that the people who guaranteed Bankman-Fried's $250 million bond to be revealed.
The names of two people who helped front the $250 million bond issued by the founder of FTX have been requested to be made public by eight MSM outlets to the US judge presiding over Sam Bankman- Fried's case.
The news organisations, which include the AP, Bloomberg, CNBC, WSJ publisher Dow Jones, the Financial Times, Insider, and WaPo, as well as a separate request from the New York Times, claim that the public interest "cannot be overstated" and that the right of the public to know outweighs the rights of the guarantors to privacy.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, the lawyers distinguished the case from another judge’s December 2020 decision not to reveal who guarantee...