SBF's guarantor identity is about to be disclosed, Judge: No reason to assume they will be threatened as a result

Previously, SBF's bail agreement was co-signed by four individuals, with two of the guarantors identified as SBF's parents, Allan Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, while the remaining two individuals remain undisclosed.

Earlier, SBF's bail agreement was co-signed by four individuals, with two of them identified as SBF's parents, Allan Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, while the remaining two remain undisclosed.

Subsequently, various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and CoinDesk jointly filed a petition on 1/12 requesting the disclosure of the identities of the two co-signers.

According to a legal document dated 1/30, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has approved the application, and if there are no further appeals by 2/14, the identities will be made public.

Representatives from the media law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP stated:

The rights of the co-signers of SBF outweigh their privacy rights.

According to a legal document dated 1/19, SBF's lawyers previously mentioned that three men drove a car through a barricade outside SBF's parents' home, indicating that the co-signers' identities should remain anonymous due to threats against SBF's parents.

However, Judge Lewis Kaplan stated that there is no evidence to conclude the existence of actual threats, and even if there were, it does not mean that non-relative co-signers would face similar threats, especially considering that SBF's parents both served as advisors at FTX.

Therefore, he believes that the argument made by SBF's lawyers about the co-signers facing threats is speculative, and furthermore, co-signers' names have always been public information in past cases.