NBC News
By Adam Reiss and Antonio Planas
August 22, 2023
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.
Bankman-Fried, 31, the former billionaire and a co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, appeared in Manhattan federal court in New York City, where he pleaded not guilty to seven counts. A superseding indictment charged him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering that defrauded customers of FTX and lenders to his cryptocurrency hedge fund, Alameda Research.
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