SBF was almost extorted for ‘protection’ in Brooklyn jail, recalls ex-inmate
1 min readSam Bankman-Fried was reportedly worried for his safety during his pre-trial detention time at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center and even considered paying another inmate for “protection,” according to a former inmate.
New York mob enforcer-turned-informant Gene Borrello told crypto blogger Tiffany Fong in a Nov. 30
Borello also said he attempted to warn Bankman-Fried that New York Judge Lewis Kaplan, overseeing his case, is the “strictest judge in the Southern District.”
In most cases, judges go with the prosecution’s sentencing recommendation — yet to be filed in Bankman-Fried’s case — “which could be something out of this world,” said Borrello.
“I think it’s bullshit to get that much time,” he added. “There’s no reason to give the guy a hundred years. That’s just insane.”
Borrello called Bankman-Fried’s situation “a glory case” which every prosecutor wants a part of as they wish to become “judges, politicians, analysts [and] big-time federal attorneys.”
“All they care about is glory. He’s the glory case. So he’s fucked.”
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