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Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to eight different counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy before a U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors allege that under Bankman-Fried’s direction, FTX, once considered one of the largest and most-trusted cryptocurrency exchanges, transferred billions in customer assets to his trading firm, Alameda Research. If convicted of these charges, Bankman-Fried faces up to 115 years in prison. A trial… Source link

Caroline Ellison hasn’t been heard from in public since Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas.MARIO DUNCANSON / Contributor/ Getty Images/ Caroline Ellison’s Twitter Former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison isn’t named in prosecutors’ charges against Sam Bankman-Fried But the SEC’s civil suit references her statements on the relationship between FTX and Alameda. Conspiracy charges and civil claims against SBF show others in the crosshairs, legal experts said. As Sam Bankman-Fried was taken… Source link

Bahamian authorities arrested former FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Monday evening. The development comes the day before Bankman-Fried had agreed to testify before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee regarding the collapse of his Nassau-based exchange. According to a statement shared by the Bahamian Office of the Attorney General & Ministry of Legal Affairs, the Royal Bahamas Police detained Bankman-Fried following receipt of formal notification from the United States it has… Source link

By Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen and Angus Berwick (Reuters) -FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors on Monday, the day before he was due to testify before Congress about the abrupt failure last month of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The arrest marks a stunning fall from grace for the 30-year-old entrepreneur who rode a boom in bitcoin and other digital assets to become a billionaire many times over until FTX’s rapid… Source link

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will need to walk a legal tightrope on Tuesday to ensure that his scheduled testimony before the House Financial Services Committee steers clear of suggested wrongdoing. And one legal expert says he’ll be listening for Bankman-Fried to explain what he knew about the company’s financial moves and corporate governance failures while serving as its CEO. “I’d want to go through the chain of events that led to the bankruptcy, so there’d be a chronological,… Source link

In a nearly 90-minute interview at the New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday, disgraced FTX cofounder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said he “didn’t try to commit fraud” as his crypto empire collapsed in a matter of days earlier this month. Speaking with Andrew Ross Sorkin remotely from the Bahamas, Bankman-Fried, known as SBF in the crypto world, stated: “I did not knowingly commingle funds” between FTX and the trading firm Almadea Research, which he also co-founded. In his first… Source link

Editor’s note: This story is developing. Check back for updates. Crypto exchange FTX and its affiliated companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company announced on Friday, with FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried stepping down as CEO. John J. Ray III will take over as chief executive, while Bankman-Fried will assist during the transition. The filing for the affiliate, Alameda Research LLC, lists between $10 billion and $50 billion assets, between $10 billion and $50 billion in… Source link

Sam Bankman-Fried.Craig Barritt/Getty Images for CARE For Special Children Sam Bankman-Fried transferred at least $4 billion in FTX funds to Alameda Research earlier this year, sources told Reuters. The money included customer funds as well as those backed by FTX’s native token FTT and shares in Robinhood.  The Wall Street Journal reported FTX lent more than half of its $16 billion in customer funds to Alameda in total. Sam Bankman-Fried transferred at least $4 billion from FTX to Alameda… Source link

Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried took a 7.6% stake in Robinhood Markets.FTX Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried disclosed that he owns about 56.3. million shares in Robinhood Markets. News of his 7.6% stake in Robinhood sent shares of the trading platform up over 30% in late trade. Bankman-Fried is the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Shares in Robinhood Markets surged more than 30% in late trade after crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried disclosed a 7.6% stake in the online… Source link

If anyone can say they know the ins and outs of crypto, it’s the 29-year-old billionaire founder of crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. Not only has he built up an impressive personal net worth by being ahead of the curve in crypto trends, he’s also built FTX into one of the fastest growing crypto platforms through first-of-their-kind partnerships.  First, there was the first-ever crypto deal with a major U.S. sports team by locking up the naming rights to the Miami Heat’s arena. Then,… Source link