SBF isn’t getting his ADHD meds, vegan meals in jail: lawyer

Sam Bankman-Fried can’t prepare for his upcoming trial because he’s not getting his ADHD medication at a Brooklyn lockup — which is also apparently refusing to serve him vegan meals, his lawyer whined at a court hearing Tuesday.

“He’s literally now subsisting on bread and water and sometimes peanut butter,” Bankman-Fried’s defense attorney Mark Cohen told a Manhattan federal judge.

Cohen said his recently-jailed client, founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, is a vegan who “continues to follow his principles” and was forced onto the spartan diet because he being “served a flesh diet” at the troubled Metropolitan Detention Center.

The lawyer made the complaints at a hearing where Bankman-Fried — wearing beige jail clothes and ankle shackles — pleaded not guilty to charges that he misused billions of customer funds to live lavishly and back dodgy investments at the FTX-connected hedge fund Alameda Research.

The 31-year-old alleged crypto crook is also being deprived of his constitutional right to mount a defense for his Oct. 2 trial because he hasn’t been given Adderall to treat his ADHD and help him focus for 11 days, and also hasn’t been able to access records in his case, his lawyers claimed.

“As this stands now there is no way for him to prepare his defense or reasonably assist in his defense,” Bankman-Fried’s other lawyer, Christian Everdell, told the judge.

“[Trial is] coming up in six weeks in one of the most complex cases in this courthouse,” Cohen added. “He’s being denied medication to focus.”

In jail, Bankman-Fried doesn’t have access to a laptop with internet and under a current order he can only come to the courthouse twice a week to review the “extraordinarily voluminous” evidence in his case — which “unacceptable” and “insufficient,” Everdell argued.

Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn said she would look into all of the medication and dietary concerns and proposed a middle ground plan.

“I’m reasonably confident they provide vegetarian options,” Netburn said of staff at the MDC — the notorious federal lockup that once housed Jeffrey Epstein gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell.

“A vegan diet may not be available but I assume a vegetarian is,” Netburn added.

Earlier, Bankman-Fried shuffled into the courtroom giving a quick nod to his mother who was seated in the second row of the gallery and who later teared up upon hearing the conditions that her son was allegedly being subjected to behind bars.

After sitting down, Bankman-Fried took a sip from a bottle of San Pellegrino sparkling water that sat on the table beside him for the rest of the hearing.

An engaged Bankman-Fried nodded and calmly told the judge that he had seen the updated indictment against him, including counts of wire fraud and various conspiracy charges.

Earlier this month, a different judge ordered Bankman-Fried to be locked-up pending trial for allegedly leaking the diary of his former lover and business partner Caroline Ellison — who took a plea deal and is slated to be a star witness against him at trial.