Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water because jail won't abide vegan diet, lawyer says
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The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he’s in isn’t accommodating his vegan diet.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    It ensures he can’t harm anyone else, for one. It provides some measure of closure and peace of mind to the victims, for another. It’s not like it’s just financial crimes, it’s witness tampering and threats that he’s in there for. How else can the witnesses feel safe? If I were they, I certainly wouldn’t feel safe if he was out on the street.

    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      14·
      1 year ago

      It ensures he can’t harm anyone else, for one

      no, it doesn’t: there are other people in prisons.

    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      16·
      1 year ago

      How else can the witnesses feel safe? If I were they, I certainly wouldn’t feel safe if he was out on the street.

      i don’t see how anyone is safer with him locked in a cage.