It's FAFO time: Bankman-Fried heads to Brooklyn jail notorious for poor conditions

[FakeNoose]

Reuters link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/bankman-fried-heads-brooklyn-jail-notorious-poor-conditions-2023-08-14/

NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) - 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.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ruled on Friday that Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, must be jailed for tampering with witnesses while free on $250 million bond at his parents' home in Palo Alto, California.

Bankman-Fried, who has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges over FTX's collapse, will now be housed before his Oct. 2 trial in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, a far cry from the luxurious Bahamas resort where he lived until his December 2022 arrest and extradition to the United States.

In recent years, MDC has been plagued by persistent staffing shortages, power outages and maggots in inmates' food. Earlier this year, a guard pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to smuggle in drugs. Public defenders have called conditions "inhumane." In the winter of 2019, an electrical fire cut off the jail's lighting and heat for days as temperatures fell to near zero Fahrenheit (minus 18 Celsius).

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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. And his jury tampering was seemingly no more serious than Trump's the past week (nt)

[uponit7771]

2. +1