This is the first time SBF has spoken in person with the media since being incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn in August 2023. In an interview published on May 9, SBF spoke with William Cohan of Puck News, which was organized by SBF's mother, Barbara Fried.

According to the interview, SBF's diet is mainly vegetarian. Since the vegetarian meals in MDC make other prisoners feel "smelly like feces", he mainly lives on beans and rice, and rice has "become a trading currency within MDC". SBF even joked that "compared to his previous life as a high-frequency trader, the arbitrage opportunities in prison are much better."

According to Puck News, SBF has lost a lot of weight, losing 25 pounds (11 kg), and is "not so fat anymore, not so nervous, not so restless, and no longer has bags under his eyes." And during the interview, SBF almost always looked into Cohan's eyes, which was rarely seen before. And he sadly admitted that he had "learned to pretend that I was" living well.

SBF's living area is a large open dormitory that the MDC once built for female prisoners. He lives with 35 other male prisoners - according to reports, half of them are murderers who have compromised with the government. However, according to SBF, prison life is very boring. There are only four TVs and a tablet that cannot connect to the Internet for entertainment. He can only play games on the tablet. Although there are many murderers living with his cellmates, SBF is not worried about his own safety. Instead, he often sleeps poorly because his cellmates often wake him up - they always ask SBF how much rice he has and want to exchange it.

Although prison life is colorful because of "rice", he still insists on his innocence and always thinks of himself as a "scapegoat". Last month, he filed a notice saying that he was appealing the fraud and money laundering charges.

In addition, he speaks with his new attorney for about an hour almost every weekday—communications in which he is very clear after taking the approved prescription medication.

He insisted that he was framed as a scapegoat for FTX's bankruptcy, and believed that his only negligence was to put FTX in a position vulnerable to bank runs and malicious behavior by competitors, and believed that the appropriate punishment should be civil, not criminal.

Cohan, the journalist, noted that he still does not believe he committed a crime and portrays himself as an innocent participant who was not given adequate opportunities to consult with prosecutors. He also said he is unapologetic about being convicted of helping to embezzle an estimated $8 billion in client funds.

He stressed that handing over the company to FTX’s legal team was the culprit that framed him for the company’s bankruptcy; if he had stayed at the leadership of FTX, the company would not have gone bankrupt but would have been a thriving $80 billion company. He added that after his lawyers convinced him that running both the trading firm and FTX was a conflict of interest, he should have tried harder to find someone other than his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison to lead Alameda, or simply ignored them and continued to run both companies.

He has asked to stay at MDC until he files an appeal, which should be in July. But under the law, he could be transferred at any time, most likely to a central California prison near where his parents are. If that happens, he could take a prison bus across the country for four months to get to the California prison.
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