Sam Bankman-Fried was the crypto king of Washington, D.C., establishing himself as a fundraising force after becoming one of the top donors to Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. After a swift fall from grace,

Sam Bankman-Fried’s latest move has been in the making since the moment FTX, his crypto exchange, collapsed in 2022. As prosecutors began to build a case that would culminate in Bankman-Fried’s convictions on seven fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy charges, the disgraced boy king of crypto jotted down 19 ideas to rehabilitate his reputation.

He’s been kind to me,” Bankman-Fried said of his new friend. “If someone told me three years ago that, Oh, you’d be hanging out with Diddy every day, I’d be like, That’s interesting; I wonder how that’s going to happen,

Bankman-Fried also insisted that he and Diddy are “two of the most famous prisoners in the world” and that living with a celebrity has been interesting for him. Last year, he was found guilty of defrauding customers as well as investors with his unsuccessful crypto exchange FTX.

Fried’s family and allies are trying to help him escape a 25-year prison sentence for fraud related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.

Sam Bankman-Fried spent his 33rd birthday dishing to Tucker Carlson about life in prison with his cell block mate, Sean "Diddy" Combs.