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At the end of a 15,000-word Twitter thread he never posted, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, offered a blunt assessment of his predicament.“I’m broke…

A diet of bread, water and peanut butter. A laptop with no internet connection. And intermittent access to millions of pages of digital evidence.Sam Bankman-Fried, the 31-year-old…

About 10 months before he was arrested on fraud charges, the cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried posed for a photograph at the 2022 Super Bowl in Inglewood, Calif.On one side of him were…

Early last year, Sam Bankman-Fried told an FTX all-hands meeting about an addition to the company’s staff.It wasn’t a head of accounting. It wasn’t a risk…

Just before crypto markets plunged last year, Sam Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund made a $1 billion bet on Genesis Digital Assets, a Cyprus-registered bitcoin miner…

A pair of attorneys defending FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried against one of the biggest white-collar prosecutions in decades are veterans of high-profile cases,…

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX doled out millions in charitable donations. Now, new management is asking for it back.Some of the money, however, has already been…

Sam Bankman-Fried built the cryptocurrency exchange FTX on the reputation of his trading firm, Alameda Research LLC.Alameda was applying Wall Street-style…

Both former executives are said to be cooperating with investigators as they build their case against Bankman-Fried. The news came with an ominous warning for others who may…

FP StaffDec 20, 2022 12:12:05 ISTFTX’s co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s extradition trial was chaotic, to say the least. The proceedings hit a major snag on the first day itself, and have now…