{"id":1775115,"date":"2022-12-14T13:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775115"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:33:36","slug":"silver-lining-bahamas-jail-housing-crypto-fraudster-sbf-is-a-rat-infested-hellhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/silver-lining-bahamas-jail-housing-crypto-fraudster-sbf-is-a-rat-infested-hellhole\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Lining: Bahamas Jail Housing Crypto Fraudster SBF Is a Rat-Infested Hellhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsilver-lining-bahamas-jail-housing-crypto-fraudster-sbf-is-a-rat-infested-hellhole%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Vegan Bankman-Fried moves from $30 million penthouse to prison described as &#8216;unfit for humanity&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>    Sam Bankman-Fried, who founded and led FTX until a liquidity crunch forced the cryptocurrency exchange to declare bankruptcy, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building after his arrest, in Nassau, Bahamas December 13, 2022. REUTERS\/Dante Carrer   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 December 14, 2022 1:30 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Sam Bankman-Fried, the Democratic megadonor charged with what the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-doj-calls-crypto-crook-sbfs-scheme-one-of-biggest-financial-frauds-in-american-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> &#8220;one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,&#8221; is being held in a Bahamas prison that&#8217;s notorious for pest infestations, unsanitary conditions, and violence.<\/p>\n<p>The former FTX CEO is detained at Fox Hill Prison, the only detention facility in the Bahamas, pending his possible extradition to the United States. Inmates at Fox Hill, <em>Barbados Today<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/barbadostoday.bb\/2019\/05\/27\/regional-bahamas-prison-not-fit-for-humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in 2019, often sleep in packed cells on cardboard mats on top of puddles of feces, and the cells are infested with rats and maggots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dogs don\u2019t deserve to live in the state that maximum security is in,&#8221; a prison officer at Fox Hill told the <em>Nassau Guardian<\/em>. &#8220;It&#8217;s not fit for humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The prison officer said prisoners spend 23 hours a day in cells with no ventilation.<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried&#8217;s request for bail, which would have freed him from Fox Hill, was denied by a Bahamian judge on Tuesday. Bankman-Fried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11532899\/SEC-charges-shamed-Sam-Bankman-Fried-defrauding-FTX-equity-investors-1-8BILLION.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a> that he should be granted bail because he is &#8220;depressed&#8221; and has a vegan diet. Prosecutors, however, argued he is a flight risk who has hundreds of millions of dollars hidden to aid in his getaway.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions at Fox Hill are so poor that the U.S. State Department investigated the facility in a 2021 human rights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/313615_BAHAMAS-2021-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inmates removed human waste by bucket. Prisoners complained of the lack of beds and bedding,&#8221; the report described. &#8220;Some inmates developed bedsores from lying on bare ground. Sanitation was a general problem, and cells were infested with rats, maggots, and insects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamian corrections commissioner on Tuesday claimed conditions at the prison have improved since a renovation program adding new cells has been underway, and that the facility no longer has a problem with rats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The facilities, most of them have been renovated,&#8221; the commissioner Doan Cleare said. &#8220;We have one more to go and we don&#8217;t have any issues with rodents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried&#8217;s experience at Fox Hill will likely differ drastically from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bankman-Fried, the Democratic megadonor charged with what the Department of Justice called &#8220;one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,&#8221; is being held in a Bahamas prison that&#8217;s notorious for pest infestations, unsanitary conditions, and violence.<br \/>\nThe post Silver Lining: Bahamas Jail Housing Crypto Fraudster SBF Is a Rat-Infested Hellhole appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1775118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7654,4092,6987,8905,8989,4344,5471,8990,8988,8764,8987],"class_list":["post-1775115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-bahamas","tag-beacon","tag-crypto","tag-fraudster","tag-hellhole","tag-housing","tag-jail","tag-lining","tag-rat-infested","tag-sbf","tag-silver"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}