FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Won’t Face Second Criminal Trial, U.S. Prosecutors Say
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Bankman-Fried’s defense team asked for a four to six week extension for his sentencing scheduled in late March, citing a possible second trial that may begin earlier in the month.
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Jon Corzine and Sam Bankman-Fried were both politically-connected business leads who lost over $1 billion in customer funds, though their different outcomes shows that regulation does not always achieve what is promised. (Wikimedia Commons/CoinDesk)
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We weren’t really sure if it was the last day or not. The jury determining Sam Bankman-Fried’s fate had begun deliberating the charges just a few hours before, after Judge Lewis Kaplan had spent much of the morning and some time after lunch reading out a 60-page charging document. Surely a case of this complexity – seven different charges, billions of dollars allegedly stolen, questions about whether witnesses were telling the truth – would take a while.
Twelve jurors spent less than five hours deciding the facts. They asked for portions of transcripts from Paradigm’s Matt Huang and Third Point’s Robert Boroujerdi testimony, as well as highlighters and Post-it Notes, and when they didn’t immediately receive the version of the indictment, they requested that too. And yet, they quickly decided that Bankman-Fried was guilty on all seven counts.