Democrat megadonor Sad Bankfraud-Man is going thru drug withdrawals.
He demands during trial that the court give him more amphetamine.
A half hour after publishing the story, Reuters removes the article and replaces it with: "Sam Bankman-Fried's former colleague Nishad Singh takes stand at fraud trial"
Posting the text and url of the original article
https://www.reuters.com/legal/sam-bankman-fried-needs-more-adderall-focus-trial-lawyers-say-2023-10-16/
Sam Bankman-Fried needs more Adderall to focus at trial, lawyers say
Sam Bankman-Fried needs a higher Adderall dose to focus at his fraud trial and decide whether to testify in his own defense, his lawyers said.

In a late Sunday letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said the one dose of Adderall the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder is being given at jail early each morning to treat his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder wears off by the time the trial day starts.
“As we approach the defense case and the critical decision of whether Mr. Bankman-Fried will testify, the defense has growing concern that because of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s lack of access to Adderall he has not been able to concentrate at the level he ordinarily would,” his lawyers wrote.

Since his trial on charges of stealing billions of dollars in FTX customer funds kicked off on Oct. 3 in Manhattan federal court, Bankman-Fried has been seen during testimony typing on a laptop and whispering to his lawyers
Prosecutors accused the 31-year-old former billionaire of laughing during the testimony of star witness Caroline Ellison, the onetime chief executive officer of his Alameda Research hedge fund and former girlfriend. His lawyer, Mark Cohen, called that charge “ridiculous.”
Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to two counts of fraud and five conspiracy counts tied to FTX’s November 2022 collapse, arguing that while he made mistakes running the exchange, he did not steal money