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Sam Bankman-Fried wanted to shut down trading firm Alameda weeks before FTX bankruptcy, says co-founder Gary Wang

FTX cofounder and childhood friend Gary Wang took the stand and admitted to the crypto empire’s crimes.

Fortune

Sam Bankman-Fried will have to face FTX victims at his upcoming trial, including a man in Ukraine who lost nearly everything

A court filing from Saturday offers further details on the Department of Justice's case against the disgraced FTX founder.

Fortune

‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here

The FTX founder’s day in court comes on Tuesday. Where did it all go wrong – and what can we expect in the high-profile trial?

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s day in court is nearly here. Who are the key players in the blockbuster trial of the former CEO of FTX?

From Bankman-Fried to his parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, to U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, meet the cast of the crypto news event of the decade.

Fortune

Did Sam Bankman-Fried's mother enable the FTX straw donor scheme?

A new lawsuit alleged that Sam Bankman-Fried's mother was instrumental to campaign finance violations.

Fortune

FTX attorneys accuse Sam Bankman-Fried's parents of unjustly enriching themselves with company funds

Lawyers for collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading are accusing Sam Bankman-Fried's parents of exploiting their influence over their son and the company he founded to enrich themselves by millions of dollars

The Independent UK

Caroline Ellison, ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, kept a Google Doc about working for the CEO

“It doesn’t really feel like there’s an end in sight,” Ellison wrote.

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FTX sues founder Sam Bankman-Fried and three others for $1bn

Lawsuit by cryptocurrency exchange, which collapsed in November, is attempting to recoup assets sought by creditors

The Guardian - UK

SBF's brother planned to buy an island nation with FTX funds to build apocalypse bunker - lawsuit says

The lawsuit also alleges that Bankman-Fried is using customer funds for his own defense.

Fortune

FTX execs ‘joked internally’ about losing track of millions in assets, misused customer funds, and ‘stifled dissent’ before the exchange’s collapse, new debtors’ report says

SBF and a team of top execs also “stifled dissent,” “commingled and misused” funds, and “lied to third parties,” a new debtors’ report alleges.

Fortune

FTX failure rooted in ‘hubris,’ ‘greed’: Report

Failed crypto exchange FTX Trading Ltd lacked fundamental financial and accounting controls, stifled dissent within the company and joked internally about their tendency to lose track of millions of dollars in assets, according to a report by the company’s debtors.

The Times of India

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried just pleaded not guilty to 5 new charges, including bribing a Chinese official and illegal political donations

Prosecutors shared that they have approximately 6 million pages of evidence.

Fortune

Why must big City firms always fall for scams like FTX?

THERE must be some very awkward meetings taking place across the City and Wall Street right now. The sort of encounters where people bang tables and demand explanations, where they look at PowerPoints and Excels, and gasp.

Evening Standard

Nishad Singh, Indian-origin engineer at FTX, pleads guilty to fraud charges

NEW YORK: Nishad Singh, a 27-year-old engineer of Indian-origin, who previously served as the co-lead engineer of FTX Trading Ltd, has admitted to charges of committing fraud.

The Times of India

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Former FTX head of engineering Nishad Singh pleads guilty in billion-dollar fraud case

NEW YORK — The former head of engineering at Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt cryptocurrency trading firm FTX owned up to fraud charges on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

Tribune News Service

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Tribune News Service

Nishad Singh, former FTX head of engineering, pleads guilty in billion-dollar fraud case

The former head of engineering at Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt cryptocurrency firm owned up to fraud charges on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

Fortune

Another top lieutenant turns on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried as Nishad Singh pleads guilty

Singh was an early employee at Alameda and a prodigious Democratic donor.

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Bankman-Fried fraud indictment cites 2 unnamed co-conspirators

Fresh charges against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried include references to a pair of co-conspirators the U.S. says were involved in illegally seeking to influence the regulation of digital assets.

Fortune

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX straw donors made tens of millions of dollars in illegal political contributions, DOJ alleges

New counts were unsealed against the disgraced FTX founder on Thursday.

Roll Call

Bankman-Fried used customer funds for campaign largesse, charges say

Customer money bankrolled millions in political donations made by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, federal prosecutors say.

Tribune News Service

FTX leaders’ political donations topped $1M weeks before bankruptcy

WASHINGTON — FTX executives, including former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, spent at least $1 million on contributions across the political spectrum in the weeks before the company’s bankruptcy, including a large donation to Senate Republican leadership.

Roll Call

FTX leaders' political donations topped $1M weeks before bankruptcy - Roll Call

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and others gave $1 million in contributions across the political spectrum before the company’s bankruptcy.

Financial Times

‘Sam? Are you there?!’ The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX

How Sam Bankman-Fried and his band of millennial millionaires lost a $40bn crypto empire

The Texas Tribune

More Texans give away campaign donations from Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX affiliates

Earlier this month, The Texas Tribune reported that Beto O’Rourke had given back a $1 million donation that Bankman-Fried had donated to his campaign.

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