Sam Bankman-Fried accused of scoffing and laughing as ex-girlfriend testified

Judge asks Bankman-Fried's lawyer to have a word with him' after prosecutors complain of possible intimidation

Sam Bankman-Fried scoffed" as his former paramour and business partner, Caroline Ellison, testified against him in his Manhattan federal court crypto fraud trial, prosecutors alleged.

This accusation against Bankman-Fried - who faces seven counts related to the collapse of FTX - came during a sidebar between lawyers and judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday that was neither audible to the courtroom gallery nor jury. Transcripts of the trial published Thursday detailed the exchange.