NEW YORK — FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is 'subsisting on bread and water' because the federal jail where he is being held ahead of his fraud trial has not provided him with a vegan diet as he requested, his lawyer said on Tuesday (Aug 22). Bankman-Fried, 31, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to seven criminal charges...
NEW YORK — FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is "subsisting on bread and water" because the federal jail where he is being held ahead of his fraud trial has not provided him with a vegan diet as he requested, his lawyer said on Tuesday .
The former billionaire was led into court wearing leg restraints and a beige-coloured uniform for his first appearance since his bail was revoked on Aug 11 by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who found that Bankman-Fried had tampered with witnesses at least twice.After the hearing, Bankman-Fried spoke to his mother, Stanford Law School Professor Barbara Fried, across the low partition between the courtroom well and the galley.
The indictment no longer charges Bankman-Fried with conspiring to violate US campaign finance laws. Prosecutors said the Bahamas, which extradited Bankman-Fried to the United States in December 2022, objected to him being tried on that count. "Because he's following his principles, he is literally now subsisting on bread and water," Cohen said, adding that his client's supply of the medication Emsam to treat depression was running low.
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