Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried has new pursuit: Jailhouse lawyer

But another prisoner at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn who had grown close to the ex-president suggested otherwise.

Acting as an informal legal adviser, the prisoner, Sam Bankman-Fried, encouraged Hernández to testify on his own behalf, Bankman-Fried said in a Friday interview from prison.

Hernández had already been inclined to take the stand, and he followed the advice. It went poorly. Days later, he was…