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The erstwhile FTX CEO’s lawyers accidental he’s being served a “flesh diet” successful situation adjacent though he’s vegan and truthful he’s been subsisting connected bread, h2o and peanut butter.
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FTX laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried has seemingly been doing it pugnacious down bars, eating lone breadstuff with peanut food to accommodate his vegan diet, portion exhausting his proviso of medicine medication.
In the aforesaid proceeding wherever Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to 7 fraud-related charges, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers pleaded for the erstwhile FTX CEO to person amended attraction wrong Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center, according to an Aug. 22 transcript shared by the Inner City Press.
Bankman-Fried’s attorneys claimed that owed to the deficiency of vegan options provided by the prison, helium had been forced to subsist connected a fare of bread, peanut food and water. The erstwhile FTX brag refused to devour the “flesh diet” being served astatine the MDC.
Mark Cohen: They are serving him a soma diet. He is lone eating breadstuff and water, and sometimes peanut butter. This is 1 of the astir analyzable cases successful this courthouse. This is outrageous and it needs to beryllium remedied.
Judge Netburn: I volition look into this, today
Bankman-Fried’s attorney, Mark Cohen, noted that his lawsuit hadn’t received his ADHD medicine since arriving successful situation and was “fearful” they would tally out.
“My lawsuit takes Adderall... And similar galore radical successful the world, helium follows a vegan diet. He had not received his Adderall astatine all, successful the past 11 days,” said Cohen.
Cointelegraph uncovered a commissary list from 2020 that reveals that SBF could beryllium paying $3.15 for peanut food connected a paper that consists astir wholly of meat, dairy and accelerated food.
U.S. Federal Court Judge Sarah Netburn said she’d look further into Bankman-Fried’s treatment.
Related: Sam Bankman-Fried prosecutors taxable projected assemblage instructions for proceedings
Bankman-Fried’s ineligible squad argued that his imprisonment was impacting their quality to hole for his upcoming trials — the archetypal of which is scheduled for Oct. 2 this year.
“There are superior Sixth Amendment issues. Our lawsuit cannot hole for trial. He was remanded since August 11. No find for 11 days, six weeks from trial. It is voluminous, it tin lone beryllium reviewed online. We person been offered lone fictions arsenic solutions.”On Aug. 21, Judge Kaplan ordered that Bankman-Fried could interaction his lawyers successful a one-time merchandise connected Aug. 22. He was allowed entree to 1 internet-enabled laptop connected to 1 WiFi device.
In the astir caller hearing, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said they had received an connection wherever helium would perchance beryllium capable to sojourn the New York courthouse 2 days a week, from 9 americium to 3pm.
However, they noted that Bankman-Fried would lone beryllium fixed entree to a pencil and insubstantial and would person to pass with them by pressing what he’d written against the solid obstruction betwixt them.
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