 Disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried has been detained in a Brooklyn jail notorious for its 'inhuman' conditions. The former CEO of crypto exchange FTX had his bail revoked on Friday after a judge found there was considerable evidence he committed witness tampering. Federal prosecutors pushed to revoke Bankman-Fried's $250million bail after he reportedly leaked the private letters of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and his ex-girlfriend, who is now serving as a cooperating witness for the government. 'There is no condition or combination of conditions of release that will assure that the defendant will not pose a danger to other persons or the safety of the community,' District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in an order on Friday. Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan Federal Court before his bail is revoked on Friday (Picture: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Bankman-Fried was remanded into the custody of the US Marshals and ordered to report to the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The MDC is notorious for its poor conditions. In 2019, New York City public defenders filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons, calling the conditions 'inhumane' after prisoners went without heat for days in the dead of winter. Bankman-Fried's lawyers had originally asked Judge Kaplan to detain him at a minimum security facility in upstate New York. The Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn (Picture: Johannes EISELE / AFP) The MDC is also notable for once housing Ghislaine Maxwell, the former madam of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While at the jail, Maxwell's attorneys filed numerous complaints on her behalf due to the jail's conditoins. According to one complaint, 'raw sewage permeated Ms. Maxwell's isolation cell,' forcing guards to move her to a different cell.){kind=link}
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Disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried has been detained in a Brooklyn jail notorious for its ‘inhuman’ conditions.
The former CEO of crypto exchange FTX had his bail revoked on Friday after a judge found there was considerable evidence he committed witness tampering.
Federal prosecutors pushed to revoke Bankman-Fried’s $250million bail after he reportedly leaked the private letters of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and his ex-girlfriend, who is now serving as a cooperating witness for the government.
‘There is no condition or combination of conditions of release that will assure that the defendant will not pose a danger to other persons or the safety of the community,’ District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in an order on Friday.