The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he’s in isn’t accommodating his vegan diet.

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    11 months ago

    Do you even know the case? If that dude isn’t a malicious conman, that phrase has no meaning.

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      11 months ago

      not intimately, no. maybe i’m wrong. i still don’t think locking him in a cage fixes anything.

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        11 months ago

        That’s a separate discussion, I just wanted to point out that in fact he did something similar to stealing grandma’s retirement funds, but on a much, much larger scale.