Convicted Crypto con artist Sam Bankman-Fried was reportedly thrown into solitary confinement after being interviewed with Tucker Carlson this week.
Bankman-Fried appeared in a video call released on Thursday with a former Fox News host at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, which has been held for the past 18 months. The interview was his latest push in an apparent long-term shot campaign to receive a presidential pardon for his 25-year ruling.
However, after the video was released, Bankmanfried was moved to solitude, and a spokesman for the Prison Bureau said “this particular interview has not been approved.” The New York Times reported.
Inmate communication in federal prisons is highly regulated.
In 2023, the dishonest tech magistrate was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy, stealing more than $8 billion from clients at his cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
The 33-year-old has been trying to sue his case since the company collapsed in 2022.
After FTX went bankrupt, BankmanFried devised a 19 Point Plan It will revive his public image, according to a memo released by federal prosecutors. The third in the list is: “I'm going to Tucker Carlsen [sic]Come out as a Republican [sic]. “Some of the bullet was “opposed to the awakened agenda.”
Bankmanfried, a former leading donor to the Democrats, had the opportunity to appeal to Republicans on the show.
“In 2020, I was on the center left, but I handed it over to Biden's campaign,” SBF told Carlson. “I was optimistic that he would become the president of the left.”
But he was “really, really shocked” by what he saw in DC in the years that followed. “It's not in the right direction,” he added.
Last month, the SBF denounced the Biden administration for “politicization” in an interview with the New York Sun. He said he discovered that “the Republican Party is much more reasonable” and praised Trump's special adviser and new Director of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk.
Both Bankman Fried's parents, Stanford University law professor, and other supporters have It is reportedly He contacts sources near Washington to defend his tolerance.
However, there were no indications they had reached Trump or his advisors, and the White House has not commented on the effort.
no Official pardon request Submitted on behalf of Bankman-Fried.
He maintained his innocence and filed an appeal in September, claiming that the judge who oversaw the case was biased and only saw “half of the photographs.”
In an interview Thursday, Bankman-Fried revealed what it was like living with “suspects of Ex Gangsters” and famous cellmates like Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“He was nice to me,” Bankman Fried said of Combs. “It's a position where no one wants to do. Obviously he won't, I won't.”
“It's a kind of soul-shattering place,” he added.
