Tag Archives: Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)

The world’s most valuable company – Apple, with market cap nearing $3 trillion, has reportedly secured the rights to the upcoming book about FTX’s founder – Sam Bankman-Fried. The book will likely be one of the many documentaries, including short TV series, to be released about SBF and his former empire. Apple Gets the Book FTX’s demise was undeniably the biggest news in the second half of 2022 in the cryptocurrency industry, perhaps even in finance. The once-prominent...

Crypto and stock trading platform Robinhood (HOOD) has executed a nine-figure buyback of its own shares from FTX’s former executives, including disgraced boss Sam Bankman-Fried and his fellow co-founder Gary Wang. The purchase secured 55,273,469 HOOD shares worth $605.7 million. Robinhood entered into the purchase agreement with the United States Marshal Service (USMS) on August 30, and closed the transaction the following day. “The Company funded the purchase of the Shares...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking additional disclosures about Sam Bankman-Fried’s planned defense. According to a Tuesday filing, the lawyers representing the agency responded to the disgraced exec’s plan to use an advice-of-counsel defense during his scheduled trial in October. If this request is not met, the DOJ asked the court to restrict specific lines of questioning, evidence, and arguments that are deemed irrelevant to the case. The development comes as the...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion to dismiss seven expert witnesses proposed by the legal team of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder and former CEO of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. According to a Monday filing with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the DOJ insisted on precluding all the witnesses because their opinions are inappropriate subjects for expert testimony, irrelevant to the...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial is one of the biggest cases of white-collar securities fraud in Manhattan, with billions of dollars having gone astray from the defunct cryptocurrency platform FTX, causing significant financial distress to former users (and employees). In the latest development, the lawyers representing the disgraced founder objected to the four million pages of discovery notes provided by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), claiming that the move is “fundamentally...

A former engineer at Alameda Research has come forward with claims on X that his entire life savings were stolen by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), his former boss. Aditya Baradwaj paints a vivid picture of the rise and fall of FTX, exposing the contradictions, grand visions, and heartbreaking consequences that ensued. As an engineer at Alameda Research, I had my entire life savings stolen from me by my former boss: Sam Bankman-Fried. Now, after months of recuperation from the...

The founder of FTX – Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) – has reportedly pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan federal court to seven criminal charges in a new indictment. This was his first appearance since his bond was revoked earlier this month, leading to his imprisonment. SBF is expected to spend the days until his trial in MDC Brooklyn: a jail located in New York City notorious for its unpleasant living conditions. The lawyer of the 31-year-old American – Mark Cohen – claimed that his...

Less than two weeks after the court revoked Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail, his legal team has requested that his freedom be returned to him during weekdays, arguing that the confines of jail are, surprisingly, too restrictive and do not offer him the circumstances necessary to properly prepare for his upcoming trial. Improper Conditions SBF’s eye-watering $250 million bond was revoked on the 11th of August following the leak of Caroline Ellison’s private diary and other...

Sam Bankman-Fried was reportedly sent to jail on Friday as US Judge Lewis Kaplan denied his lawyers’ request to delay detention. The former crypto mogul’s court date is set for October 2nd, and he could sit in a jail cell until then if the appeal is unsuccessful. CryptoPotato reported last month the allegations presented by the New York Times that SBF had tried to intimidate one of the key witnesses in his legal battle against US authorities – the former leader of Alameda...

A group of customers of the once-prominent cryptocurrency exchange FTX has reportedly filed a lawsuit against the law firm Fenwick & West, insisting that it contributed to the alleged scam orchestrated by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and the subsequent multi-billion losses it brought.  The former leader of the exchange has pleaded not guilty to the fraud charges against him. He currently lives with his family, awaiting the trial at the beginning of October, which will...