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Crypto: The white male privilege scam

The downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried serves as a reminder of how many white male "geniuses" are just full of crap

Salon

Sam Bankman-Fried: Arrested crypto exchange boss hugs parents as he is denied bail on fraud charges

Former cryptocurrency exchange entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried hugged his parents as he was denied bail after being charged with “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”.

Evening Standard

Lightfoot supporter questions indicted crypto billionaire’s donation to Garcia

State Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) questioned Samuel Bankman-Fried’s motives for spending $151,420 on direct mail pieces for Chuy Garcia’s congressional reelection.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Five things we know about the collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried

Company founder was arrested and charged with running a ‘house of cards’ in ‘one of the biggest financial frauds in US history’

The Guardian - US

Sam Bankman-Fried charged with fraud as first congressional hearing closes – as it happened

US Congress commences hearing on the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange, less than 24 hours after its former chief executive was arrested

The Guardian - US

US unseals fraud and conspiracy charges against Bankman-Fried - Roll Call

The U.S. brings criminal and civil charges Tuesday against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fired, including one related to campaign finance law.

Roll Call

Elon Musk mocked over tweet predicting ‘Dem donor’ Sam Bankman-Fried would never be arrested

Twitter owner mocked on his platform after failed prediction from a month ago

The Independent UK

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Stanford law professors are entangled in Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX mess—and SBF’s father withdrew from an upcoming class

Bankman-Fried’s father—and his colleague—are reportedly consulting with the disgraced founder of the crypto exchange, who was raised on the prestigious university’s campus.

Fortune

As FTX burned, lawmakers said to be dithering over regulator

WASHINGTON — Congress opted to tread water on legislation that would clarify the agency in charge of the cryptocurrency industry, leaving lawmakers now without a regulator to blame for missing the signs of the FTX collapse this month and facing deep skepticism about some proposals.

Tribune News Service

As FTX burned, lawmakers said to be dithering over regulator - Roll Call

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s prominence on Capitol Hill is said to have tainted bills deemed too favorable to the cryptocurrency industry.

Roll Call

Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's extravagant penthouse lifestyle in the Bahamas, where the T-shirt-clad FTX founder lived like royalty

The FTX founder created a gilded and connected life in the island paradise.

Fortune

Michael Hiltzik: How Sam Bankman-Fried exploited the 'effective altruism' fad to get rich and con the world

The most uplifting aspect of the Sam Bankman-Fried story was always that he guided his way to a putative cryptocurrency fortune of more than $16 billion by following a philosophy of charitable giving known as "effective altruism."

Los Angeles Times

Will Bunch: Billionaires like Musk, Bankman-Fried didn't save the world. They wrecked it. Let's take it back

After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who got into MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman-Fried decided in those teen years that he wanted to save the world in the worst way.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Power-hungry robots, space colonization, cyborgs: inside the bizarre world of ‘longtermism’

Sam Bankman-Fried said his billions would save the world – but his philanthropic ideas ranged from the worthy to the severely outlandish

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FTX bankruptcy also endangers founder's philanthropic gifts

The rapid collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX into bankruptcy last week has also shaken the world of philanthropy, due to the donations and influence of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in the “effective altruism” movement

Benzinga

Chronicling Luke Skywalker And Darth Vader, Bestselling Author Michael Lewis Has Book In Works Covering Sam Bankman-Fried and Changpeng Zhao

With the world fascinated and intrigued by the story of FTX and its co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, many have wondered how long it will take until a movie or series on the storyline pops up in theaters or on

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: A cryptocurrency billionaire implodes, showing that the whole field is built on quicksand

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

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