PANews reported on June 17th that a New York Magazine report revealed the current situation of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) in prison. He is currently serving time at the Lompoc Federal Prison in California, taking Adderall and Emsam daily for clinical depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. SBF continues to write his serialized memoir, "Manfred," which he sends to a small number of relatives and friends through the prison's email system. He adheres to a vegetarian diet, refusing to eat in the prison cafeteria and instead purchasing ingredients from the convenience store to prepare his own meals, even compiling a "vegetarian prison cookbook."

SBF spent approximately $135 on a tablet he purchased in prison and has played the same game about 6,000 times. According to fellow inmates, SBF stated that he would need $50 million to $100 million in start-up capital to build a business after his release, and claimed he would "issue his own new token, and everyone will flock to it," but the inmates added, "He was probably joking." SBF filed for a presidential pardon on June 8th, and his appeal was rejected on June 12th. His chances of receiving a pardon according to Polymarket are approximately 14%.