Summary
- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was reported to have been transferred to a federal transit facility due to an unauthorized interview.
- His transfer was said to be due to conducting an interview without the correctional authorities' permission.
- It was reported that a federal transit facility is a temporary holding facility where inmates stay before moving to their final place of incarceration.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX that went bankrupt in 2022, has been transferred to a federal transit facility due to an unauthorized interview.
According to The Block on the 27th, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons recently initiated the process of transferring Bankman-Fried from the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center to a federal transit facility located in Oklahoma. A federal transit facility is a temporary holding facility where inmates stay before moving to their final place of incarceration.
The background for Bankman-Fried's transfer is cited as the unauthorized interview. Bankman-Fried recently conducted a video interview with famous anchor Tucker Carlson from the detention center. The interview was not authorized by the correctional authorities. It is reported that the authorities temporarily placed Bankman-Fried in solitary confinement.
JOON HYOUNG LEE
gilson@bloomingbit.ioCrypto Journalist based in Seoul
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