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…

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