Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Banished to Oklahoma

Sam Bankman-Fried — the disgraced crypto bro convicted for playing ringmaster to a multi-billion dollar fraud scheme — no longer shares a prison block with Sean "Diddy" Combs. Instead, he's being relegated to the flat lands of Oklahoma, at least for the time being, after appearing in an unapproved video interview with Tucker Carlson. The 33-year-old SBF famously went from trading billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency to peddling commissary ramen packs after a massive federal investigation uncovered rampant fraud perpetuated by his blockchain company, FTX. His sentence is 25 years followed by three years of supervised release, which began in March of 2024. The Wall Street Journal reports that SBF was awakened at 3 am from his cot in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Correctional Center and carted off to a facility in Oklahoma City, which typically serves as a holding place for incarcerated people in transit to their long-term destination. Whether the change of scenery was a punishmen ... Read full article.