The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.
An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he’s in isn’t accommodating his vegan diet.
It doesn’t have to. The point is to punish him for moral reasons. Those moral reasons are what holds society together and are honestly more important than any other consideration including getting the victims their money back. That task is on the feds. It’s not the prison system’s job.