FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was carted off to a detention facility in New York on Friday after his bail was revoked. His accommodations will be a far cry from his parent’s home on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, where he previously dwelled on house arrest.
The disgraced crypto wunderkind was remanded to Metropolitan Detention Center, (MDC) Brooklyn after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan found probable cause to believe Bankman-Fried engaged in witness tampering. Bankman-Fried already faces a litany of criminal charges, such as fraud, in connection to the collapse of FTX last November.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator, Bankman-Fried is now among the approximately 1,600 incarcerated individuals at the facility, which has housed other high-profile inmates in the past.
At one point, the inmate list included convicted sex trafficker and former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. She was, coincidentally, represented by Bankman Fried’s current attorney, Mark S. Cohen. That was before she was found guilty of crimes and offenses in connection with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In November 2021, Maxwell decried the conditions at MDC Brooklyn. She
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