Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried complains to court that vegan prison diet of ‘bread, water and peanut butter’ is ‘outrageous’ – and says he ‘can’t prepare for trial’ without access to computers and medication
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is suing in court that a vegan prison diet of “bread, water, and peanut butter” is “outrageous” — saying he “can’t prepare for trial” without access to computers and medicines
Lawyers for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried claim the disgraced crypto founder cannot prepare for his prison trial without access to computers, drugs and a “better diet.”
The disgraced vegan billionaire, 31, is put on a ‘meat diet’ of bread, water and peanut butter – which his lawyers say is ‘outrageous’.
His legal team also complained that the crypto whiz kid, who appeared in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday with his legs chained, was unable to prepare without proper medication.
Bankman-Fried is being held at Brooklyn’s infamous Metropolitan Detention Center after Judge Lewis Kaplan revoked his $250 million bail.
The judge had granted a request from prosecutors to jail Bankman-Fried after agreeing that the fallen cryptocurrency expert had repeatedly tried to influence witnesses against him.
Incarcerated Sam Bankman-Fried claims he cannot adequately prepare due to the conditions imposed on him at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn
The disgraced vegan billionaire, 31, is put on a ‘meat diet’ of bread, water and peanut butter – which his lawyers said was ‘outrageous’
His lawyers argued to Judge Sarah Netburn, who presided over the Aug. 22 hearing, that he needed access to computers and medicines to properly prepare.
Attorney Christian Everdell said he was denied the right to properly prepare for his trial because he was only able to view the millions of pages of evidence two days a week.
Another member of the team called his diet “outrageous” and demanded it be “fixed”, adding that he had not been properly medicated since he was in prison on August 12.
Judge Netburn refused to reverse Kaplan’s decision to ban Bankman-Fried’s access to computers.
But she said the court would try to get the MDC to provide drugs and a diet more in line with the defendant’s vegan preferences.