Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto fraudster at present serving 25 years in jail for his crimes, just lately opened about being in the identical jail as Sean “Diddy” Combs. Each males are being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart.
Diddy’s racketeering conspiracy and trafficking trial is ready to begin later this 12 months, whereas Bankman-Fried is crusading to get his conviction pardoned by Donald Trump. In a weird podcast interview with former Fox host Tucker Carlson (sure, that Tucker Carlson), Bankman-Fried mentioned that the mogul is “sort to individuals within the unit.”
Diddy has pleaded not responsible to all expenses.
Bankman-Fried additionally instructed Carlson that Diddy has “been sort to me.” The interview, which is round 40-minutes lengthy, was posted on X.
“It’s sort of a soul crushing place for the world on the whole, and what we see are simply the individuals which can be round us on the within reasonably than who we’re on the skin,” he instructed Carlson.
Bankman-Fried additionally insisted that he and Diddy are “two of essentially the most well-known prisoners on the earth” and that dwelling with a star has been attention-grabbing for him. Final 12 months, he was discovered responsible of defrauding clients in addition to traders along with his unsuccessful crypto change FTX.
His sentence was one of many highest in terms of circumstances pertaining to white-collar fraud. Bankman-Fried said that he has managed to make buddies however that jail is a “mixture of some different excessive profile circumstances after which quite a lot of…ex-gangsters, alleged ex-gangsters.”
Bankman-Fried used Carlson’s platform to not simply speak Diddy, however to achieve Trump’s assist. Regardless of as soon as being a donor to former President Joe Biden, Bankman-Fried has now modified his tune and backs the Republican celebration.
Shortly after the interview with Carlson, Bankman-Fried was moved to solitary confinement. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons mentioned “this explicit interview was not authorised,” in line with The New York Instances.