FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried heads to Brooklyn jail notorious for poor conditions

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Sam Bankman-Fried will now be housed before his Oct. 2 trial in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center

while free on $250-million bond at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California.

In the winter of 2019, an electrical fire cut off the jail’s lighting and heat for days as temperatures fell to near zero Fahrenheit . Founded in 1994, MDC currently hosts 1,608 inmates. It is now the jail housing detainees awaiting federal trials in New York City, after the Manhattan Correctional Center closed in 2021 for improvements. Epstein killed himself in his MCC cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

In a letter on Monday, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers asked Kaplan to order MDC to provide their client with daily prescription medications for depression and attention deficit hyperactive disorder.

 

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