Sam Bankman-Fried is back in the public eye. He spoke with the New York Sun in February, has posted repeatedly on X, and sat for a video interview with Tucker Carlson in early March. But how is the cofounder and former CEO of the failed crypto exchange FTX (who is apparently undertaking a campaign, boosted by his parents and family friends, to win a pardon from President Trump) waging an unauthorized media blitz from behind bars?
Currently, the convicted fraudster remains detained on the fourth floor of the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center in a section reserved for high-profile inmates like Sean “Diddy” Combs and Luigi Mangione. “This isn't a f---ing camp,” Larry Levine, a federal prison consultant and former inmate, told Fortune. “You're in a very, very confined space,” Sam Mangel, another prison consultant, said.
