Sam Bankman-Fried is being taken to a prison in Brooklyn, where famous inmates from Ghislaine Maxwell to the former president of Honduras have complained about the poor conditions, according to Reuters.
Recall that on Friday, Judge Lewis Kaplan revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail after finding that he attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice.
He will spend the time until his trial on October 2nd in a detention center in Brooklyn, away from the luxury resort in the Bahamas where he lived until his arrest and extradition to the United States in December 2022.
The 30-year-old Bankman-Fried is accused of committing fraud involving billions of dollars. Specifically, he is charged with siphoning off funds from his clients’ deposits to finance his business projects, real estate purchases, political donations, and to bolster the hedge fund of his group, Alameda Research.
The “crypto guru” has been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with a years-long scheme to defraud investors, resulting in the loss of over $1.8 billion. It is noted that the once-powerful billionaire was arrested in the Bahamas.
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Bankman-Fried raised over $1.8 billion from investors and concealed the extent of the relationships between FTX and Alameda Research, which he himself had founded.
In the recent past, there have been complaints about staff shortages, power outages, and even worms in the food of inmates at the Brooklyn prison. In fact, at the end of 2019, a fire disrupted lighting and heating for days, and the temperature dropped to nearly -18 degrees Celsius.
Maxwell’s lawyers compared the conditions there to the imprisonment of Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs.” The prison, which currently houses 1,608 inmates, holds inmates awaiting trial in New York, as the Manhattan Detention Complex closed in 2021 for improvements.
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