Posted on 08/22/2023 2:40:40 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty Tuesday to an amended indictment alleging fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges, appearing in court for the first time since his bail was revoked and he was sent to a Brooklyn jail to await trial.
Lawyers for the former crypto billionaire, who is vegan, said the detention center is not accommodating his diet and failing to regularly dispense his prescription Adderall.
“He’s literally now subsisting on bread and water, which are the only things he’s served that he can eat, and sometimes peanut butter,” his attorney, Mark Cohen, told the court.
Magistrate Judge Netburn said she would contact the Bureau of Prisons about the accommodations.
Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Friday.
Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, has spent the past 11 days in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a notoriously overcrowded facility that’s been regularly accused of keeping inmates in inhumane conditions. It’s a far cry from his house arrest, which he spent in the relative luxury of his parents’ Palo Alto home in California.
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I thought bread and water was standard prison fare. That’s what me parents told me when I was a kid.
Yeah right, calling BS. I’m sure canned peas, corn and carrots are a staple in jail. Too bad if the POS demands fresh and organic.
It’s probably exactly what Sam needs since he looked 100lbs overweight.
I thought bread and water was standard prison fare.
I don't think prisons still have it. Maybe food loaf. The Navy does bread and water.
Are there maggots in the bread?
His paid off guards are probably bringing him steak and lobster.
Ha! Predicted this after SBF had problems with the beans and rice in the Bahamian jail. He’s not just your run-of-the-mill vegan. He’s a special vegan.
If he is being served sustaining and eatable food, it’s his decision to not eat.
Or sourdough. Flour, water and salt — that’s it. Not even any factory-manufactured yeast. It gets yeast from the “starter” which gets it from the air and grain bran.
“He’s literally now subsisting on bread and water”
Yeah, welcome to the party, pal. Most Americans can barely pull that off.
“Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF”
By whom?! No one called him that until this very moment.
Living large on legal methamphetamine.
He could stand to lose a few pounds. Fat F’er.
Bread and water is about what this con-man psychopath deserves.
"Now, I don't like it any more than you do, but that's the way he wants it."
True dat.
But flying used to be relatively expensive.
Affordability has given us the human cattle car, sadly.
You are right. A true Vegan only eats elements on the periodic table.
How much money did he take from people and donate it to the democRAT party?
Yeah, I have no sympathy for him at all. Perhaps he should get used to eating what they give him since he really should be there for life just like Madoff.
One more reason his attorneys will use to spring him—a stunt.
You are largely correct, sir.
The initial Air Travel deregulation of the time led me to do the skiing in the Western America that the rest of America didn’t want to do.
Now it has turned out to be worse than riding the Dog.
I now 100% drive. I can take more of my “stuff” and most generally get there on time and don’t have to get a rental car.
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