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Kimmel on Jan 6 texts: ‘Even Scooby-Doo villains know not to write it down’

Late-night hosts discuss Mark Meadows’s texts with GOP lawmakers about overturning the election, Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest and the Respect for Marriage Act

The Guardian - US · Dec 14, 2022

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 · Dec 14, 2022

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 · Dec 14, 2022

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 · Dec 13, 2022

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 · Dec 6, 2022

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 · Nov 29, 2022

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 · Nov 29, 2022

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 · Nov 22, 2022

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 · Nov 22, 2022

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 · Nov 22, 2022