Sam Bankman-Fried’s long-dormant X account is alive again — and posting about DOGE and leadership advice

The former FTX chief’s account posted a thread of 10 posts, weighing in on DOGE and giving tips on how to fire people.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former FTX chief sentenced to 25 years in prison in March, disappeared from X for two years. A series of 10 posts on Monday night from his account broke that spell.

The posts gave his followers leadership advice about firing employees and talked about the White House DOGE office. Bankman-Fried’s last X post before Monday was on January 20, 2023.

Some of the posts on Bankman-Fried’s account offered tips on how to fire people.

“I’d tell this to everyone we let go: that it was as much our fault for not having the right role for them, or the right person to manage them, or the right work environment for them,” one post said.

Other posts voiced support for DOGE and its rounds of firing. One post said: “There’s no point in keeping them around, doing nothing.”

It’s unclear whether Bankman-Fried wrote the posts himself. His lawyer did not respond to a request sent outside regular business hours.

The posts come nearly a year after he was convicted of taking $8 billion from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

He has been serving his sentence at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Elon Musk’s DOGE is doubling down on its plan to slash the size of the US federal workforce as part of its larger aim to weed out government inefficiencies.

In an email Saturday, the Office of Personnel Management asked federal workers to turn in a list of their achievements within the past week, giving them a deadline of Monday at 11:59 p.m. ET.

Musk wrote Saturday in an X post about the new directive: “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

However, at least eight federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice, have asked their workers not to respond to the email.