The Latest Breaking News from Jonathan Howard

They've held credentials from some of the world's most elite universities — Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oxford. They've been welcomed into the highest government policy councils. They became fixtures on television news shows and were quoted incessantly by some of the nation's leading newspapers.

Photos of Farr on social media show him posing with expensive cars and motorbikes and enjoying exotic holidays – despite acquaintances claiming he owes them thousands.

Former customers, employers and investors claim Matthew Farr, now Scott, left them out pocket.

For a while there, Sam Bankman-Fried looked like the real thing.