- Sam Bankman-Fried, the imprisoned former FTX chief, had an inactive X account for two years.
- But on Monday, 10 posts giving advice on firing employees appeared on that account.
- It comes as Elon Musk's DOGE ramps up efforts to slash head count in the federal workforce.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former FTX chief sentenced to 25 years in prison in March last year, 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 Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. Bankman-Fried's last X post before Monday was on January 20, 2023.
Some of the posts on Bankman-Fried's account give tips about 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," read one post.
Other posts voiced support for DOGE and its rounds of firing. One post read: "There's no point in keeping them around, doing nothing."
It is unclear if Bankman-Fried wrote the posts himself. His lawyer did not respond to a request from Business Insider, sent outside regular business hours.
The posts come nearly a year after he was convicted of taking $8 billion from his customers in his FTX cryptocurrency exchange. he was sentenced to 25 years in prison by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan.
He has been serving his sentence at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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.
The Office of Personnel Management wrote federal workers an email on Saturday, asking them to turn in a list of their achievements within the last week and giving them a deadline of Monday at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Musk wrote in a Saturday 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.
