Convicted crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried rejected a flirty inmate who tried to woo him with bikini photos during his stint at a federal jail in Brooklyn. <\/p>\n
Bankman-Fried, 34, caused an uproar among his fellow detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center by turning down the advances of a female inmate who bombarded him with letters and tried to hit on him by sending \u201cchess moves his way,\u201d according to New York Magazine<\/a> profile. <\/p>\n Convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried rebuffed a flirty inmate who sent him bikini photos during his stint at Metropolitan Detention Center. AP Photo\/Mary Altaffer<\/p>\n The former crypto mogul \u2014 who was in the protective custody unit called \u201c4 North\u201d at the infamously abysmal jail between August 2023 and March 2025 \u2014 wrote back to the woman that he was not interested, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n Bankman-Fried\u2019s rebuff stunned the fratty crew of inmates, but he was initially confused as to why they took it so personally.<\/p>\n \u201cAt that point, I saw true fear strike the heart of a group of very large, very intimidating grown men. Guns, needles, prison, knives \u2014 those were the reality of their day-to-day lives,\u201d Bankman-Fried told the outlet.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the threat of a rare bikini picture in a sea of men being taken back from them was horrible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Inmates at MDC are allowed to access a 20-by-20-foot recreational area off the unit, where they can shout at their prison girlfriends through grates to the female side of the lockup. <\/p>\n \u201cThe deck is all indoors, and there\u2019s kind of, like, a small iron grate on the bottom of it,\u201d Carmine Simpson<\/a>, an ex-NYPD cop who solicited X-rated photos from minors and was housed at MDC, told the outlet.<\/p>\n Bankman-Fried formerly dated Caroline Ellison, who was sentenced for her role in the sprawling multibillion-dollar fraud that brought down Bankman-Fried\u2019s crypto empire. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n \u201cAnd if you lay down and look, you could see the top of the female grate, and guys would lay there for hours screaming down and trying to talk to their prison girlfriends,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s so insane. People were having fistfights because they were trying to claim, like, \u2018slots.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Though Bankman-Fried didn\u2019t have a girlfriend when he was sent the flirty bikini pics, he had an on-again, off-again relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, who headed his crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research, before testifying against him.<\/p>\n Ellison was sentenced to two years in prison<\/a>\u00a0for her role in the sprawling multibillion-dollar fraud that brought down Bankman-Fried\u2019s crypto empire.<\/p>\n Bankman-Fried is currently behind bars at a federal prison in Lompoc, California, after being sentenced to 25 years for fraud and conspiracy. REUTERS<\/p>\n She was transferred last year from the low-security Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut to community confinement after serving about 11 months\u00a0of her sentence.<\/a><\/p>\n Bankman-Fried was sentenced in March 2024 after a jury\u00a0convicted him of orchestrating a massive fraud tied to the collapse<\/a>\u00a0of FTX, once one of the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.<\/p>\n He is currently behind bars at a federal prison in Lompoc, California, after being sentenced to 25 years for fraud and conspiracy. <\/p>\n The fraudster, who was once one of the Democratic Party\u2019s biggest financial backers<\/a>,\u00a0is seeking a pardon from President Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Convicted crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried rejected a flirty inmate who tried to woo him with bikini photos during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,10525,19998,3130,57,9,56,63,65,64,42522,58],"class_list":["post-269165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-inmates","tag-jail","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sam-bankman-fried","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}