Ex-FTX CEO ends up in Oklahoma prison despite request from judge

Records show Sam Bankman-Fried was in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, suggesting authorities may still transfer him to a prison in California.

Former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried is no longer incarcerated in New York or California, where his parents own a home — according to prison records, he’s in Oklahoma.

As of May 23, inmate records for the Federal Bureau of Prisons showed that Bankman-Fried was being held at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. According to the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice, the facility confines inmates on a “short-term basis” for transfers within the prison system.

SBF’s relocation to Oklahoma, coupled with reports from May 22, suggested that authorities may transfer the former FTX CEO from the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Mendota. The transfer appeared to have happened despite Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recommending SBF stay at MDC Brooklyn.

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