It’s quite clear Sam Bankman-Fried isn’t precisely delighting in jail. Locked up in Brooklyn’s well-known Metropolitan Detention Center, he’s hardly eating, hardly showering and cut off from the web. (There are advantages: He doesn’t need to shave or cut his hair to stop working to impress jurors any longer, and is obviously rather proficient at ping-pong.)
Unsurprisingly, then, the 31-year-old isn’t particularly crazy about investing the next century behind bars, even if those bars remain in a rather less-horrific jail than the MDC. Six-and-a-half years, at a lot of, appears sensible enough to the FTX creator when he’s sentenced next month, particularly provided his unfaltering belief that he truly didn’t go anything incorrect. But that’s not the only factor his legal representatives fear a reliable life sentence. They state that provided how unusual and off-putting Sam is—even when he doesn’t reek from bad individual health—that life may not be a long one.
The filing explains him as a “shy” kid who “often struggled socially,” who in high school “realized he was anhedonic, or unable to experience joy or pleasure….” The legal representatives composed that Bankman-Fried has a “neurodiversity” that “greatly affects how he perceives and is perceived….”
The filing states that due to the fact that of his condition, “Sam is uniquely vulnerable in a prison population.”
“Individuals with ASD are often at considerably greater risk of physical harm and extortion in prison than other inmates,” the legal representatives composed.
That Bankman-Fried isn’t like other prisoners, particularly at the MDC, which isn’t utilized to numerous white-collar lawbreakers, was apparent sufficient to those he served time with. One, previous gang member G Lock, stated SBF is “a different kind of guy” and “odd.” But, obviously, in an adorable sort of method, considered that when one prisoner did effort to obtain him, other prisoners united to secure him, potentially due to the fact that he’s full of suggestions on how to turn $5,000 into $1 million. And if the court provides him the Michael Milken treatment he’s requesting, he assures to be simply as excellent a young boy on the outdoors as he remains in the clink.
The lawyers argued that Bankman-Fried is “not at risk of committing further crimes,” and had actually currently been roughly penalized by the bad conditions in the Brooklyn, New York, federal prison where he has actually been secured considering that last summer season…. “Given the same chance [as Milken], Sam would dedicate his post-prison life to charitable works, finding the best ways to help others, and put them into practice, consistent with his commitment to effective altruism.”
FTX scammer Bankman-Fried looks for less than 7 year sentence, declares he is at danger of ‘harm and extortion’ in jail [CNBC]
A crypto influencer has actually published what she states is the very first image of Sam Bankman-Fried socializing with his fellow prisoners [BI]
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