Bankman-Fried Seeks to Probe Lawyers’ Involvement in $200M ‘Sham’ Alameda Loans The defendant in a multi-billion fraud trial is pressing to blame legal advice, despite judicial reluctance to let him.
What to Expect When Caroline Ellison Takes Stand in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial
Crypto Risks Another Sam Bankman-Fried if U.S. Doesn’t Provide Clear Regulation
The DOJ Has Come Out Swinging in the Sam Bankman-Fried Trial The trial has started off strong for the Department of Justice. Some expected the DOJ to bring its most important witnesses – namely Sam Bankman-Fried’s former inner circle – toward the end of the trial – but oh how wrong we were.
DOJ Wants to Block Sam Bankman-Fried From Bringing Up Anthropic AI Raise in Court The U.S Department of Justice wants the judge overseeing its case against Sam Bankman-Fried to block the defense team from introducing any evidence that his stake in artificial intelligence company Anthropic will benefit FTX creditors after the company’s recent fundraise.
What Happened During Sam Bankman-Fried’s First Week in Court?
Gary Wang, a FTX Founder, Says Sam Bankman-Fried Steered Misuse of Funds Mr. Wang is one of three key witnesses who pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate against Mr. Bankman-Fried, the onetime crypto mogul on trial for fraud.
Sam Bankman-Fried Ordered ‘Special Privileges’ for Alameda, FTX Co-Founder Gary Wang Testifies “Sam told me to make sure Alameda’s accounts would never get liquidated on FTX,” Wang said.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Test the Judge’s Patience It could take six weeks for prosecutors to make their case against Sam Bankman-Fried. But only three days were needed for the judge overseeing his trial to lose patience with the former crypto chief’s defense team.
Was Sam Bankman-Fried’s bean bag chair a lie too? Choose your college roommates carefully… | Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Drew Angerer, Getty ImagesTwo of Bankman-Fried’s MIT roommates make a damning case for the prosecution. Continue reading…
Michael Lewis Was Charmed by Sam Bankman-Fried – But So Was Everyone Else Michael Lewis is getting slammed for a relatively sympathetic portrayal of SBF. The larger question is: Why did so many people fall under Sam’s spell?
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Two Multimillion-Dollar Jets May Be Forfeit, DOJ Says The assets, whose ownership is in dispute, could be used to pay back creditors of Alameda Research and FTX.
Unpacking the First Day of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Actual Trial A Parisian cocoa trader told Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial jury that pricey ads and FTX’s confident CEO helped convince him the crypto exchange was a safe place to deposit over $100,000 so he could trade cryptocurrencies – but he never expected that anyone but him would touch his funds, kicking off testimony just hours after the jury was selected an…
Cocoa bean trader who lost $100,000 to FTX was first witness in Sam Bankman-Fried trial Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial is underway in New York, as prosecutors try to prove the crypto entrepreneur misused billions of dollars of client money
Is Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense even trying to win? Even the defense’s opening statement was a bad look for Sam Bankman-Fried | Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The VergeThe prosecution came out swinging. Oddly, Bankman-Fried’s defense didn’t. Continue reading…
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Criminal Trial Opens Prosecutors said the FTX founder had lied to customers. Defense lawyers said he had just been trying to prevent his cryptocurrency exchange from melting down.
Sam Bankman-Fried Shouldn’t Have Cut His Hair If your defense is “I didn’t know what was happening,” don’t dress like a competent person.
Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Lied,’ DOJ Tells Jury; Defense Tries to Pin FTX Collapse on Caroline Ellison “He poured money — other people’s money — into investments to make himself even richer,” the prosecutor said in opening arguments.
Sam Bankman-Fried Now Has a Jury A federal judge has chosen the 12 people who will decide whether FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried violated fraud and other laws in running his once-mighty crypto exchange.
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