Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Transferred to Oklahoma After An Unauthorized Prison Interview

• Sam Bankman-Fried was moved from Brooklyn’s detention center to a federal transit facility in Oklahoma City after he conducted an unapproved remote interview with Tucker Carlson.
• Officials woke him early Wednesday for the transfer without exactly telling him his next destination. He is expected to be sent to a lower-security prison near California’s Bay Area, closer to his parents.
• During the course of the interview, he still insisted he was wrongfully convicted, and he argued that FTX would have been financially stable without government interference.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of failed crypto exchange FTX, has now been moved from the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center to a federal transit facility in Oklahoma City. 

The transfer happened a short while after he did an interview  in a remote video with political commentator and journalist  Tucker Carlson without a proper approval. Immediately the video aired, officials working with the Federal Bureau of Prisons began the process of relocating him to a long-term prison, where he will continue serving his fraud sentence.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Transfer to Oklahoma City Federal Facility

Sam Bankman-Fried has been transferred to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, a prison facility that holds inmates temporarily pending when they are sent to their final prisons. The decision to move him follows an interview he gave to Tucker Carlson. The Officials at his previous New York facility woke him early Wednesday without telling him where he was going. 

His next stop is expected to be a lower security prison near California’s Bay Area, close to his parents’ home. The Bureau of Prisons website has confirmed his transfer, and his release is scheduled for November 17, 2044.

In 2023, Sam Bankman-Fried, received a 25-year prison sentence as he was found guilty of conspiracy, money laundering, and fraud. Along with his sentence, he has also been ordered to forfeit $11 billion and will be under supervision for three years after release.

Bankman-Claims Innocence

During the course of the interview with Carlson, He argued that FTX would have remained financially stable if not for actions taken by authorities. 

During the interview, he once again claimed that he was innocent, supporting his family’s efforts to get him pardoned. When he was asked about his crime in crypto, he insisted he was not guilty, even though the Justice Department disagreed with what he had to say previously. He argued that FTX could have had $100 billion in assets compared to the $15 billion in debt.

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