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Former FTX Executives Sentenced In Cryptocurrency Fraud Case

Former FTX executive sentenced to prison for fraud, aiding in conviction of founder. Case highlights cryptocurrency industry complexities and commitment to...

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Former FTX executive Ryan Salame is not pleased with his prison sentence

Despite pleading guilty, Sam Bankman-Fried's former lieutenant received a harsher sentence than prosecutors asked for—and took to X to voice his displeasure.

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Fast Times at FTX High

Here’s a look back at the graduating class from the financial fraud of the century.

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Dramatic fall for Sam Bankman-Fried and ‘unkempt visionary’ persona

Jury did not believe T-shirt, cargo shorts and messy hair could prevent someone defrauding people out of billions of dollars

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Shattered wunderkind image: five key takeaways from Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial

The trial of the FTX founder has ended after a month with a guilty verdict. What did we learn?

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Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of defrauding FTX customers out of billions

The prosecutor said that ‘while the cryptocurrency industry might be new … this kind of corruption is as old as time’

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Sam Bankman-Fried is found guilty of all charges in FTX's spectacular collapse

The conviction marks a spectacular fall from grace for a once shining star in finance. He faces decades in prison.

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Here are 3 of the most damning documents in the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, according to the prosecution’s final rebuttal

The jury is set to deliberate Thursday afternoon after the judge instructs them on how to weigh the evidence.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial testimony: six key takeaways

FTX founder, once the darling of Washington and Silicon Valley, blamed his ex-girlfriend and said ‘I do not recall’ a lot

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Sam Bankman-Fried makes himself out to be an absentee CEO in new testimony

The FTX cofounder tried to distance himself from the hole in FTX’s balance sheet.

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Sam Bankman-Fried wraps up testimony as fraud trial nears end

Prosecutors press Bankman-Fried on how Alameda Research, sister hedge fund to FTX exchange, spent $8bn of customer funds

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Bankman-Fried’s lieutenants say he directed them to commit crimes. He portrayed himself as a hands-off CEO wary of being ‘distracting’

The FTX founder took the stand for a second day of cross-examination on Tuesday.

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Sam Bankman-Fried can’t shut up. His ‘word salad’ answers were almost 75% longer on average than his 3 FTX lieutenants’

“The witness has what I'll simply call an interesting way of responding to questions,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said of Sam Bankman-Fried’s babble.

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Sam Bankman-Fried admits to ‘large mistakes’ in crypto fraud trial testimony

Bankman-Fried says his biggest mistake was not implementing a dedicated risk management team for crypto trading platform FTX

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Sam Bankman-Fried on the stand: ‘A lot of people got hurt’

Disgraced crypto entrepreneur admits mistakes were made in FTX’s collapse but denies he’s a crook

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Sam Bankman-Fried blames everyone but himself for FTX’s approach to risk management, including a trillion-dollar trading disaster

The FTX founder finally faced a jury on Friday, sharing a version of events that contradicted previous testimony from Gary Wang and Nishad Singh.

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Sam Bankman-Fried testifies in his crypto fraud trial without jury present

The CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX is charged with seven counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money

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They were Sam Bankman-Fried's friends. Now they could send him to prison for life

Bankman-Fried built a multibillion crypto business spearheaded by FTX with the help of a group of young colleagues. Now three of his closest associates have turned against him.

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The last week of FTX, according to the private messages of Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh

“I just had an increasing dread of this day that’s been weighing on me for a long time,” Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, texted Bankman-Fried.

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Former FTX executive Nishad Singh describes conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried over customer funds: ‘I was blindsided and horrified’

While Bankman-Fried lounged on a white chaise chair, Singh realized that FTX was not force for good but had "turned out to be so evil."

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Behind the scenes of week 2 of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial

Caroline Ellison testified about bribery, FTT, Thai prostitutes, and her surprisingly small equity package.

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Criminal mastermind or hapless dude? A look into Sam Bankman-Fried's trial so far

The trial of the former FTX CEO concluded its second week, featuring explosive testimony from Caroline Ellison, a former girlfriend of Bankman-Fried.

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FTX was a boys’ club. When Caroline Ellison asked Sam Bankman-Fried for equity in the hedge fund she ran, he said ‘it was too complicated’

The former CEO of Alameda Research had only a half-a-percentage-point stake in FTX and no equity in the crypto hedge fund she once led, she testified on Tuesday afternoon.

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FTX cofounder Gary Wang says he took out $200 million to $300 million in loans from Alameda Research for investments he couldn’t ‘recall’

Interest payments for the loans became so cumbersome that Wang took out a loan just to pay for them.

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Sam Bankman-Fried trial: ex-girlfriend says he directed her to commit crimes

Caroline Ellison, who dated Bankman-Fried for years, tells court that he gave the orders to commit $10bn in fraud

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