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SBF Is Going to Prison for 25 Years

[Mar 29, 2024 4:00 AM] Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. He won't be spending time in a maximum security facility, and he'll be placed as close to his family in the San Francisco Bay Area as possible, but he's going to prison nonetheless – and he'll be there for the…

How Sam Bankman-Fried's Sentencing Hearing May Play Out

[Mar 27, 2024 4:00 AM] Sam Bankman-Fried will find out this week if he is potentially facing decades in prison. Judge Lewis Kaplan is set to sentence him for his conviction last year on two fraud charges and five conspiracy charges tied to the operation and collapse of…

SBF Trial: The Last Day of Summer Camp

[Nov 9, 2023 5:00 AM] 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…

What's Next for Sam Bankman-Fried's Legal Case?

[Nov 7, 2023 5:00 AM] The story of "United States v. Sam Bankman-Fried" isn't quite over yet. Now that he's been found guilty on seven different charges, a few different things are going to happen.

The Case Against Sam Bankman-Fried

[Nov 2, 2023 4:00 AM] Is Sam Bankman-Fried going to prison? Five weeks into his criminal trial, 12 randomly selected New Yorkers are preparing to discuss among themselves whether they believe he violated federal law or not.

Bankman-Fried Had a Hairy Day in Court

[Oct 31, 2023 4:00 AM] An observation from sleep-deprived day 15 of Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial: prosecutors embrace the inevitable outcome of male pattern baldness; defense lawyers don’t.

What's Left for Sam to Say?

[Oct 26, 2023 4:00 AM] Sam Bankman-Fried has said a lot in the months after FTX collapsed about what happened. What's left for him to discuss?

The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Our Favorite Quotes, So Far

[Oct 20, 2023 4:00 AM] It's fall break! Thursday ended early after just two witnesses – former FTX General Counsel Can Sun and Third Point's Robert Boroujerdi – testified briefly. We won't be back in the courthouse at 500 Pearl Street until next Thursday, Oct. 26, when…

Judge Kaplan's Ire Hits All Lawyers in the Sam Bankman-Fried Case

[Oct 19, 2023 4:00 AM] We’ve entered the soul-sucking phase of Sam Bankman-Fried’s month-long criminal trial. The part where an antsy Judge Lewis Kaplan paces and glares – and then lashes out at prosecutors (and also defense lawyers) for wasting everyone’s time.

The DOJ Has Come Out Swinging in the Sam Bankman-Fried Trial

[Oct 9, 2023 4:00 AM] The trial has started off strong for the Department of Justice. Some expected the DOJ to bring its most important witnesses – namely Sam Bankman-Fried’s former inner circle – toward the end of the trial – but oh how wrong we were.

Sam Bankman-Fried's Lawyers Test the Judge's Patience

[Oct 6, 2023 4:00 AM] It could take six weeks for prosecutors to make their case against Sam Bankman-Fried. But only three days were needed for the judge overseeing his trial to lose patience with the former crypto chief’s defense team.

Unpacking the First Day of Sam Bankman-Fried's Actual Trial

[Oct 5, 2023 4:00 AM] A Parisian cocoa trader told Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial jury that pricey ads and FTX’s confident CEO helped convince him the crypto exchange was a safe place to deposit over $100,000 so he could trade cryptocurrencies – but he never expected that…

No Jury Yet, but We're Getting There

[Oct 4, 2023 4:00 AM] Sam Bankman-Fried had a grin on his face as he entered court on Tuesday morning – clad in a black suit and an uncharacteristically tame (read: closely trimmed) mop of hair. After nine long months, the disgraced crypto founder will finally have the…

The Collapse of FTX, in Sam’s Own Words

[Oct 3, 2023 4:00 AM] We may not know for weeks whether Sam Bankman-Fried will take the stand at his own trial. He may want the chance to explain himself to the jury, but his lawyers are surely wary of the withering cross-examination such a tactic would invite. No…

Sam Bankman-Fried Goes on Trial Tomorrow

[Oct 2, 2023 4:00 AM] It is officially trial week, everyone – or as Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal would likely put it, “this is why we get up in the morning.” It’s been exactly nine months and 20 days since Sam Bankman-Fried got arrested in his then-home in the Bahamas