No Adderall for Sam Bankman-Fried

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday rejected Bankman-Fried’s request to leave the Metropolitan Detention Center where he’s been for the last six weeks. The judge did make a provision for the founder of the FTX crypo platform to come to court early some days before trial.

Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have argued that the limited access to their client made it difficult to prepare for trial. They complained he’d been limited to a diet of mostly bread and water, plus a little peanut butter, and that he had difficulty obtaining his prescription Adderall to treat his ADHD and depression.

Kaplan also questioned whether Bankman-Fried might be motivated to flee, if he were released during the trial and “things began to look bleak.”