Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble
The dishevelled former wunderkind fooled Silicon Valley and stole billions from customers, a court found.
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The dishevelled former wunderkind fooled Silicon Valley and stole billions from customers, a court found.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of crypto exchange FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding investors. Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York set the sentence today in a hearing in New York Federal Court. He said the long sentence would serve as a deterrent, that Bankman-Fried had lied on …
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire cryptocurrency wunderkind, has finally been sentenced over his conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX exchange he founded.
The once-hailed ‘boy wonder’ of the crypto industry rose to prominence after founding trading firm Alameda Research in 2017 at the age of 25. So what went wrong? Bevan Hurley looks back at Bankman-Fried’s remarkable rise – and even more dramatic fall as he begins his 25-year prison sentence
Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty of federal fraud charges in connection to the demise of FTX.