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Blake Montgomery and Victoria Bekiempis in New York and Lois Beckett in Los Angeles

Sam Bankman-Fried denies messy hair part of ‘tech genius’ persona during trial

A charcoal or pastel drawing of a young man with black hair and a gray suit looking serious.
Sam Bankman-Fried is questioned in federal court in New York City, 30 October 2023, in this courtroom sketch. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

Sam Bankman-Fried testified in his own blockbuster crypto trial again Monday, with prosecutors grilling the one-time crypto mogul about the many discrepancies between his public and private claims about crypto-exchange FTX.

Bankman-Fried appeared to have had a haircut over the weekend, just in time for prosecutors to start their cross examination and question whether his famously unkempt hair was part of a deliberate, anti-style “tech genius” persona.

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