Sam Bankman-Fried is sent to solitary confinement for unauthorized jailhouse interview with Tucker Carlson
Sam Bankman-Fried’s revealing interview where he spoke about being imprisoned with Diddy and Luigi Mangione has earned the FTX founder a stay in solitary confinement.
The convicted cryptocurrency king is serving a 25-year sentence for fraud at New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn alongside his famous fellow inmates.
His interview was apparently ‘not approved’ by the Bureau of Prisons, the New York Times reported.
While they would not confirm that Bankman-Fried had been punished with solitary confinement, a person close to the situation said that he had been locked up on his own after the interview went live.
During the chat, the former Fox News host asked Bankman-Fried if he has made any friends while behind bars and if he has been spending time with Combs.
‘Have you made friends there? Are you hanging with Diddy? I think he’s in there with you,’ Carlson asked.
A grinning Bankman-Fried replied, ‘He is.. he’s been kind. I’ve made some friends, it’s a weird environment. It’s a combination of a few other high-profile cases and a lot of alleged ex-gangsters.
‘I’ve only seen one piece of him, which is Diddy in prison. He’s been kind to people in the unit, he’s been kind to me.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s revealing interview where he spoke about being imprisoned with Diddy and Luigi Mangione has earned the FTX founder a stay in solitary confinement
New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn house several famous inmates including Diddy, SBF and accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione
‘It’s kind of a soul crushing place for the world in general and what we see are just the people that are around us on the inside rather than who we are on the outside.’
Carlson asked what their fellow inmates think of being locked up with two famous people and how they all get along.
‘Some of them I think are thinking well this is sort of an opportunity to meet people they wouldn’t otherwise get to meet,’ Bankman-Fried said.
‘It makes sense from their perspective, but boy is that not how I think about prison.’
The FTX founder also revealed he was surprised to find strong chess competitors inside prison.
‘They’re good at chess… former armed robbers who don’t speak English, and probably didn’t graduate middle school, a surprising number of them are fairly good at chess. I’m not saying they’re grand masters, but I lose games to them all the time,’ he said.
In the latest episode of DailyMail.com’s podcast The Trial of Diddy, federal prison consultant Sam Mangel said the Metropolitan Detention Center was placed on lockdown since last week after ‘more than 40’ people were involved in a melee.
While high-profile inmates like Combs, Mangione and Bankman-Fried were not housed at the area where the incident occurred, the entire Brooklyn facility was placed on ‘modified operation’ for at least the next month.
Sam Bankman-Fried shared how his fellow inmates feel about disgraced rap mogul Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs
He told Tucker Carlson that Combs is kind to him and their fellow inmates
‘He’s locked down now, at least 23 out of 24 hours,’ Mangel told the Daily Mail of Combs. ‘I’m sure they allow him out at least three times a week for a shower, maybe to make a phone call, but that’s about it. So he’s being fed in his cell, it’s a six by nine cell with a little slat for a window.
‘If he wants to exercise in his cell, he can read in his cell. There are no TV’s and that’s where he is and will be for the next month other than legal visits. I know my client as well as other clients. I work closely with another consultant that is actually a Mangione’s consultant. They’re clamoring for legal visits because it’s the only time that they can get out of their cells to see people, interact with people in a more open environment.’
Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prison confirmed to DailyMail.com that ‘multiple’ inmates ‘were observed fighting’ at the Brooklyn facility on February 22.
‘Responding employees isolated and contained the incident and at no time was the public in danger,’ BOP spokesman Donald Murphy told the DailyMail.com podcast.
MDC, which houses more than 1,600 inmates, is notorious for its ‘deplorable conditions. In 2019, the prison made headlines after inmates suffered days without heat or power during severe winter conditions.
Diddy has been locked up at MDC since he was arrested last year on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. He’s been denied bail multiple times.
Combs has vehemently denied all of the allegations since they first came to light and pleaded not guilty after charges were initially filed.
