Sam Bankman-Fried, the founding father of the FTX cryptocurrency change who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy, was transferred out of a Brooklyn detention heart on Wednesday morning, his spokesman mentioned.
Mr. Bankman-Fried’s ultimate vacation spot wasn’t clear, his spokesman, Mark Botnick, mentioned. Earlier than the switch, Mr. Bankman-Fried, 32, advised folks near him that he anticipated to be moved to a federal correctional facility in Mendota, Calif., an individual with data of the matter mentioned.
A consultant for the Bureau of Prisons declined to touch upon Mr. Bankman-Fried, citing “privateness, security and safety causes.” A spokesman for the prosecutors who oversaw Mr. Bankman-Fried’s case didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In a courtroom submitting on Wednesday afternoon, Lewis A. Kaplan, the decide overseeing his case, mentioned the courtroom “recommends” that the Bureau of Prisons maintain Mr. Bankman-Fried on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn. Mr. Bankman-Fried had requested to stay there whereas he labored on an attraction difficult his conviction.
Mr. Bankman-Fried’s switch was reported earlier by The Wall Road Journal.
In March, Mr. Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in jail after he was convicted of defrauding FTX’s prospects, buyers and lenders. Prosecutors mentioned that he orchestrated a yearslong fraud, siphoning $8 billion from buyer accounts to finance enterprise capital investments, political contributions and actual property purchases.
When he was charged, Mr. Bankman-Fried was granted bail and confined to his mother and father’ home in Northern California. Choose Kaplan revoked his bail in August, saying that he had tried to intimidate a witness. Since then, Mr. Bankman-Fried has been confined to the Metropolitan Detention Middle.
