How Sam Bankman-Fried thought he could win it all back
It appears that, for fallen FTX wonder boy Sam Bankman-Fried, stealing funds from customers was purely rational.
It appears that, for fallen FTX wonder boy Sam Bankman-Fried, stealing funds from customers was purely rational.
FTX’s former general counsel Can Sun testified to his own ongoing deception by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2021 and 2022.
So far at trial, Bankman-Fried’s team has made repeated, serious missteps that could do him more harm than good in the eyes of the jury.
Bankman-Fried’s mother Barbara could be seen removing her glasses, bowing her head, and grinding her fists into her eyes for minutes on end.
On the first day of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, government prosecutors and his own team affirmed that he had received no offer of a plea deal.