Bread, Water and Peanut Butter: Sam Bankman-Frieds Life in Jail
The New York Times Mr. Bankman-Fried, founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has protested his conditions at Brooklyns Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits trial on fraud charges.
A diet of bread, water and peanut butter. A laptop with no internet connection. And intermittent access to millions of pages of digital evidence.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the 31-year-old cryptocurrency mogul, has spent nearly a month at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since a federal judge revoked his bail last month. As Mr. Bankman-Fried prepares for a fraud trial on Oct. 2 over the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX, his lawyers have offered a picture of the conditions he has faced at the jail a far cry from the Bahamas penthouse he once shared with other billionaire executives.
On Tuesday, Mr. Bankman-Frieds lawyers and the prosecutors bringing the case against him are scheduled to submit a joint court filing discussing measures to help him prepare for his trial from the jail. The defense lawyers have argued in court filings that the jail conditions, especially a lack of internet service, are preventing Mr. Bankman-Fried from working on his case, while prosecutors have contended that they have made accommodations to help him.
