Imprisoned Crypto Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Dishes To Tucker Carlson All About ‘Kind’ Cellmate Diddy
Imprisoned crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried dished to Tucker Carlson about his cellmate Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, the rapper currently facing sex trafficking charges – among many others.
Bankman-Fried spoke with Carlson remotely for The Tucker Carlson Show from Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York. Bankman-Fried and Diddy are currently together in the same unit. The New York Times reported the pair are living in a “dormitory style room with a group of other defendants.”
FTX founder Bankman-Fried was once hailed as the poster boy for crypto, but he was eventually sentenced to 25 years behind bars last year for defrauding investors out of billions. Bankman-Fried was found guilty on multiple counts following FTX’s collapse in 2022. Bankman-Fried is appealing his conviction.
During Carlson’s chat with Bankman-Fried, he asked him about his unusual living situation with a rapper whose alleged sex crimes have been constantly making headlines.
Bankman-Fried told Carlson that Diddy has been “kind” after Carlson asked whether the disgraced crypto wizard has “made friends” or is “hanging” with the rapper.
Read the exchange below:
TUCKER CARLSON: “So, like, have you made friends there? Are you hanging with Diddy? I think he’s in there with you.”
SAM BANKMAN-FRIED: “He is, he is. It’s, I don’t know, he’s been kind. I’ve made some friends. It’s a weird environment. It’s sort of a combination of a few other high profile cases and then a lot of ex-gangsters — or alleged ex-gangsters.”
CARLSON: “Yes. Definitely alleged. So what’s Diddy like?”
BANKMAN-FRIED: “You know, obviously 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. It’s also — it’s a position no one wants to be in. Obviously, he doesn’t, I don’t. As you said, it’s kind of a soul crushing place for the world in general. And what we see are just the people that are around us on the inside rather than who we are on the outside.”
CARLSON: “I’m sure. You’re two of the most famous prisoners in the world in the same unit. Like, what do you armed robbers think?”
BANKMAN-FRIED: “Well, it’s a really interesting question and of course some of them think, wow, this is a big opportunity to meet people they wouldn’t otherwise get to meet which is.”
CARLSON: [LAUGHS]
BANKMAN-FRIED: “It makes sense from their perspective, but boy that is not how I think about prison.”
CARLSON: “Sorry to laugh. No, that is not how you think about it.”
BANKMAN-FRIED: “Laughing’s all you can do sometimes. There’s no better alternative. They’re good at chess. That’s one thing I learned. Former armed robbers who don’t speak English and probably didn’t graduate middle school, a surprising number of them are farily good at chess. I’m not saying they’re grand masters, but I lose games to them all the time. I was not expecting that.”
Watch above via The Tucker Carlson Show.
