Sam Bankman-Fried’s helicopter parents crash into federal court

Judge Lewis Kaplan has ordered Sam Bankman-Fried to declare under penalty of perjury whether attorneys drafted the pro se filings submitted under his name. Bankman-Fried's mother, Stanford law professor emerita Barbara Fried, filed a February motion for a new trial on his behalf, and Kaplan rebuked her on March 16 for lacking standing to file papers in the case. Prosecutors questioned a March 19 letter purportedly from Bankman-Fried, citing its FedEx tracking origin near Palo Alto, which is near his parents' home, and an "/s/" signature rather than an actual one. Bankman-Fried has until April 15 to respond.