Sam Bankman-Fried is led away by officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force on December 13, 2022.
Sam Bankman-Fried is led away by officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force on December 13, 2022.
  • Sam Bankman-Fried was arguing with his mom over texts from a bathroom when police arrived to arrest him, per Michael Lewis.
  • The police initially asked FTX's in-house psychiatrist if he was Bankman-Fried.
  • While SBF's mom wanted him to wear long pants to jail, and he insisted on staying in his cargo shorts.

Sam Bankman-Fried argued with his mom about his clothes as Bahamian police closed in to arrest him last December, according to Michael Lewis' biography about the FTX founder.