Former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried has reportedly been despatched to solitary confinement after participating in an interview with right-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson, which was not accepted by jail authorities.
“This specific interview was not accepted,” a consultant for the US Bureau of Prisons told The New York Instances on March 7.
Bankman-Fried didn't obtain permission to take interview
In line with an individual briefed on the state of affairs, after Bankman-Fried’s interview with Carlson was revealed, he was despatched to solitary confinement at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle, the place he has been held since August 2023.
Supply: Andre Cronje
The Bureau of Prisons is alleged to have strict guidelines on who can talk with inmates and the way they'll achieve this.
The interview, revealed on Carlson’s YouTube channel on March 6, has already garnered 730,425 views on the time of publication.
Supply: Tucker Carlson
Through the interview with Carlson, Bankman-Fried talked about prison life since his sentencing and his ideas on crypto regulation within the US.
Bankman-Fried instructed Carlson he didn’t suppose he was “a prison.”
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Whereas Carlson didn’t straight ask Bankman-Fried if he anticipated a pardon from US President Donald Trump, he appeared receptive to some Republican concepts throughout the interview.
Nonetheless, because the interview aired, hypothesis has grown inside the group a couple of doable Trump pardon.
According to a March 7 X put up from crypto predictions platform Polymarket, “the chances of an SBF pardon have almost doubled,” because the interview was revealed.
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On Jan. 21, only a day after taking workplace, Trump gave a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who had been in jail for 12 years for founding the defunct darknet market the Silk Highway.
In the meantime, in September 2024, legal professionals representing Bankman-Fried filed an appeal for his seven felony counts and 25-year jail sentence.
Within the 102-page transient, the legal professionals claimed that the previous FTX CEO was “by no means presumed harmless,” topic to scrutiny that allegedly affected prosecutors, the presiding decide, and remedy by the media.
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