The former crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried quickly became familiar with the Metropolitan Detention Center’s financial structure.
While awaiting punishment on 7 felony counts, including wire fraud and an attempt to commit laundering funds, the infamous founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was keeping busy by exchanging food products for services.
It seems that a convict gave him the neat haircut he had been sporting in New York courtrooms. According to a source who spoke with The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, SBF paid to get a haircut using packed mackerel, a kind of pelagic fish that prisoners can choose to purchase with their own money.