Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried leaves a Manhattan federal courthouse in January 2023. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images
Tiffany Fong uploaded a photo that appears to show a scruffy-looking Sam Bankman-Fried.
Fong says she received the photo from an inmate and ex-gang member named “G Lock.”
“I heard he doesn’t shower very often,†Fong said of Bankman-Fried.
This is a machine translation of an article from our US colleagues at Business Insider. It was automatically translated and checked by a real editor.
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried doesn’t look particularly well-groomed in prison Photo shows that crypto influencer Tiffany Fong received. Fong said she received the photo from a man named “G Lock,” a former gang member who was in prison with Bankman-Fried.
“According to G Lock, these photos were taken on December 17, 2023, because apparently inmates are only allowed to take photos on Christmas and Father’s Day,” Fong said in a statement on Monday Video-Post on X
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Fong said she obscured the faces of the other inmates for privacy reasons. In the photo, the man she identified as “G Lock” is seen standing next to a seemingly disheveled-looking Bankman-Fried.
“He has obviously lost some weight and I heard he doesn’t shower very often. He’s not as clean-shaven as he used to be,” Fong says in her video. “But he’s obviously going through a lot at the moment.â€
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Bankman-Fried has been in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center since August. He was originally placed under house arrest, but was remanded in custody after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan found there was reasonable cause to believe he attempted “witness tampering.”
The Brooklyn prison is notorious for its poor living conditions. A former prison warden described it as “The most troubled facility in the Bureau of Prisons.”.
Not only does Bankman-Fried have to contend with prison hygiene standards, but he also has to figure out how to pass the time without the internet, since inmates are only allowed radios or MP3 players.
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In November, jurors found Bankman-Fried guilty of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy at his criminal trial in Manhattan federal court. Bankman-Fried, who was once known as the golden boy of the crypto economy, could be sent to prison for up to 110 years. The sentencing is scheduled for March 28th.
Representatives from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider outside regular business hours. A representative for Bankman-Fried declined to comment on Fong’s photo.
Read the original article in English here.