Sam Bankman-Fried calls Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'kind' in jailhouse interview with Tucker Carlson
Sam Bankman-Fried spent his 33rd birthday dishing to Tucker Carlson about life in prison with his cell block mate, Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Just before his cryptocurrency empire crumbled in November 2021, Sam Bankman-Fried considered going on Tucker Carlson’s show to “come out as a republican” to rehabilitate his image. On Thursday, almost a year since Bankman-Fried, a co-founder of FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding users of his cryptocurrency exchange, he finally fulfilled his plan.
From “a little side room” of Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, Bankman-Fried spent his 33rd birthday dishing to Carlson in a wide-ranging interview, which included new details about life in prison with his cellblock mate Sean "Diddy" Combs. As NBC has reported, Bankman-Fried and Combs, who has been charged with sex trafficking, are being housed in the same unit.
“I’ve only seen one piece of him, which is Diddy in prison, and he’s been kind to people in the unit; he’s been kind to me,” Bankman-Fried said on “The Tucker Carlson Show.” “It’s also — it’s a position no one wants to be in.”
Bankman-Fried, 33, was convicted in November 2023 of seven counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering for swindling customers of FTX and lenders of Alameda Research, its associated hedge fund. Prosecutors said Bankman-Fried “perpetrated one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.”
A chief public information officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.
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