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American District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Monday that the names of the two individuals who co-signed the bail of $250 million from Sam Bankman-Fried, except for the relatives of the founder of FTX, may be publically available.
The New York judge who oversaw the criminal trial of Bankman-Fried supported four separate petitions from a number of news organizations seeking to know the names of these people, Signed the security deposit earlier this month. The decision remains in abeyance until an appeal is filed, at least until February. 7.
A slew of media companies, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and CoinDesk had filed suit to get the court to release the identities of the two people, saying “the public’s interest in this matter cannot be overstated.”
Bankman-Fried’s lawyers had argued the possibility of physical threats to the parties were reasons to keep their identities private.
