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

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Sam Bankman-Fried will prepare for his fraud trial from a Brooklyn jail where inmates ranging from convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Honduras’ former president have complained of subpar conditions. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ruled on Friday that Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, must be jailed for tampering with witnesses while free on $250-million bond at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California. Bankman-Fried, who has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges over FTX’s collapse, will now be housed before his Oct. 2 trial in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, a far cry from the…

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