Bankman-Fried heads to Brooklyn jail notorious for poor conditions
Bankman-Fried heads to Brooklyn jail notorious for poor conditions
Sam Bankman-Fried will prepare for his fraud trial from a Brooklyn jail where inmates ranging from convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Honduras' former president have complained of subpar conditions.
SBF would still be on relatively lenient house arrest at his parent’s lovely Palo Alto home but he violated pretrial rules so many times (using forbidden encrypted communication channels, constantly giving interviews, manipulating witnesses) that he absolutely deserves being sent to jail. It’s an open question whether he’s been such a jackass out of some weird compulsion or as a desperate legal strategy. I guess we’ll find out at his trial.
11I just have to say this somewhere. Very annoying that I learned about Sam Bankman-Fried and Sam Altman on like the same day. Always confusing me.
6Lawyers for Maxwell, who was convicted of recruiting and grooming teenage girls for abuse by the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said raw sewage seeped into her MDC cell. Her attorneys compared the "reprehensible and utterly inappropriate" conditions there to Hannibal Lecter's incarceration...
he's gonna have some weird nights
4I'ma simple man, I see a paywalled article,I downvote
1Are you sure it’s paywalled? It isn’t for me, and I don’t think Reuters even paywalls any of its articles.
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Sad that this country is proud of its “poor conditions” in prisons.
1I’ll have you know we pay top dollar for those poor condition prisons!
4Where are you getting this information from? Most people i communicate with say we need prison reform.
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