The FTX Files
Caroline Ellison: A woman with agency or a helpless pawn?
Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX collapse?
The FTX Files
Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX collapse?
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"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
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Sam Bankman-Fried maintains that his crimes were victimless and resulted in zero losses, and therefore warrant only six years of imprisonment. Prosecutors argue that 40–50 years are justified.
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From billions of mysterious Tethers to the apparent identity theft of Thai sex workers, many questions remain about what happened at Bankman-Fried's crypto empire.
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Jurors spent less than five hours deliberating before returning the verdict.
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Bankman-Fried comes off as sullen and cagey in his cross-examination in front of the jury.
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Taking the stand before the jury for the first time, Sam Bankman-Fried recounts familiar events we've heard described by previous witnesses, but gives a very different version of those stories.
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After a few other brief witnesses, it was time for the main event — or, at least, a preview of it.
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If you're dying to hear about today's events at the FTX trial, here's a livestream to hold you over until I can write!
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I'm taking this show on the road to hear Sam Bankman-Fried testify in person.
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Is the defense team doing as poorly as it looks, or do they have a trick up their sleeves?
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Sam Bankman-Fried's direct messages to a journalist about "unethical shit" were admitted as evidence, much to the dismay of his legal team.
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The defense team finally scores a few points, and cell phone records reveal Bankman-Fried's extensive influence tour in Manhattan.
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Singh testified that Bankman-Fried pressured him into trying to dig FTX out of a hole he didn't even know about until the very end.
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BlockFi CEO testifies that the company wouldn't have loaned to Alameda Research if they had any idea what was really going on
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Recordings of the now infamous all-hands meeting capture Caroline Ellison admitting to conspiring with Sam Bankman-Fried to misappropriate FTX customer funds.