Sam Bankman-Fried’s family pays $10K a week for armed security, sources say
By Selim Algar
December 27, 2022 2:05pm
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Amid death threats and sudden global infamy, accused FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and his parents have turned their posh Stanford home into a heavily guarded fortress.
The family is shelling out roughly $10,000 a week to have a private Bay Area security firm patrol the leafy, 3,000-square-foot residence with several armed guards working around the clock, sources told The Post.
“They’re nervous,” one source said. “There have been death threats. They’re not taking any chances.”
Bankman-Fried threw cryptocurrency into chaos with the collapse of his FTX exchange, which came amid federal prosecutors investigating his alleged illegal use of investors’ money to prop up his Alameda hedge fund.
He was jailed in the Bahamas, where he had set up his crypto empire, then extradited to the US, where he is now under house arrest with a $250 million bond.
The episode has had a significant impact on Bankman-Fried’s father, Stanford Law professor Joseph Bankman, and mother, Barbara Fried, a tax expert at the same university.
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