- Sam Bankman-Fried may very well be despatched to a jail with restricted vegan choices, per The Wall Road Journal.
- The choose at his sentencing listening to beneficial he be despatched to a low or medium-security facility.
- The disgraced FTX founder was handed a 25-year sentence on Thursday.
Sam Bankman-Fried may need bother sustaining his vegan eating regimen in jail.
The disgraced crypto entrepreneur may perform his 25-year sentence at Mendota, a medium-security jail in California, in line with a jail guide employed by his legal professionals.
There, he may need to go for vegan objects on the jail’s commissary record reminiscent of rice, almonds and Skittles drink combine, The Wall Road Journal reported.
Bankman-Fried was discovered responsible on seven counts, together with fraud and conspiracy, by a jury in November.
US District Decide Lewis Kaplan, who imposed Bankman-Fried’s 25-year sentence on Thursday, beneficial he serve it in a low or medium-security jail close to his mother and father’ house in San Francisco.
The choose stated he’d factored Bankman-Fried’s wealth and autism, which may make him a goal, into his suggestion, the Journal reported.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons will in the end resolve the place the FTX founder winds up. Joel Sickler, a federal jail guide, advised the Journal that Bankman-Fried’s security may very well be in danger in a medium-security facility, the place different inmates may very well be serving sentences for violent crimes.
Bankman-Fried would have extra freedom to maneuver round a low-security jail, reminiscent of Lompoc close to Santa Barbara, the place inmates can study to crochet, in line with the report.
Both approach, meals is more likely to be a problem. Invoice Baroni, a former New Jersey official convicted for his function within the Bridgegate scandal, advised the Journal the one greens he ate in jail got here from cans. “He isn’t going to a Simply Salad,” Baroni stated. “He’ll in all probability need to do numerous peanut butter.”
Bankman-Fried has been sustaining a vegan eating regimen, largely of beans and lettuce, in line with a fellow inmate on the the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn the place the FTX founder has been held since August.
Carmine Simpson, a former NYPD officer additionally being held there with Bankman-Fried, wrote a letter to Decide Kaplan to plead for leniency on Bankman-Fried’s behalf, BI beforehand reported.
“Regardless that twelve out of each fourteen of Sam’s weekly meals are simply undercooked rice, a scoop of disgusting-looking beans and week-old brown lettuce, Sam has stayed true to his dedication to not take part within the maltreatment of animals,” Simpson wrote.
