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Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted on All Charges

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Sam Bankman-Fried, the former head of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was found guilty Thursday on all seven charges concerning the crypto scam. The trial lasted a month.

Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, could spend decades in prison after he was convicted of the most serious offenses of security fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. The jury was only out for a few hours.

He faces 110 years in prison. He stood calmly while the verdict was read. His parents, Stanford Law School professors Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, were visibly distraught.

Sam Bankman-Fried

Prosecutors proved to the jury’s satisfaction that SBF secretly funneled millions of dollars in customer assets to Alameda Research, a private trading firm that was essentially used as his personal bank account.

SBF wired millions of dollars to family members, purchased luxury real estate, and donated tens of millions of dollars to mostly Democrat political candidates.

The disgraced crypto mogul was one of the largest political donors of the 2022 midterm election cycle. He funneled $38 million to the Protect Our Future PAC. The PAC was dedicated to electing Democrats in House races.

During the trial, his girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, the head of Alameda Research, testified that SBF was the scheme’s mastermind. Alameda helped make $8 million in customer funds disappear. She said that SBF was the one who set up the systems that allowed Alameda to take the money, and he was the one who directed them to take customer money to repay loans.

She was the head, but it was SBF who handled the day-to-day decisions and responsibilities, as well as all the major decisions.

Bankman-Fried will probably appeal. He will remain imprisoned at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until his second trial on four additional charges. That trial begins next year.

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  1. Two things are likely to occur now, Either SBF will be “Epsteined” or Biden will pardon him on his last few days in office.

  2. The guy’s elevator clearly doesn’t go all the away up. I think he is a front man and scapegoat for a puppet master…just like Joe Biden is for O’Bama. That doesn’t mean they both aren’t guilty…it just means there is, I believe, a string puller that should also be jailed but is going free. Girlfriend isn’t guiltless, either.

    • His Stanford law professor parents ran the SBF money laundering scheme. Anything to get democrats (socialists) elected. Same has occurred in South America, Ukraine, Africa etc. Insatiable ideologues destroying democracies.

  3. He needs to see a psychologist right away and be declared not suicidal. People with info on Dems don’t tend to last long in prison.

  4. Let’s hope that this slimy, cowardly little twerp spills the beans on the corrupt Demonunist traitors he likely conspired and collaborated with in fraud. He won’t do well in jail and knows it and will likely do and say anything necessary to avoid being forced to bite pillows in prison.

  5. This is outstanding! Hopefully they can get him to flip on the Dem donors in exchange for the remaining charges.

    • Probably won’t fly. Unless the Dems were actively involved in the actual fraud, no prosecutor would touch them. Remember, they are Democrats not Republicans.

    • He’s the sacrificial lam dude! He’s probably gonna be Epstein-ed in prison? Let’s hope this leads to all the other cryptos falling as well? ALL THOSE SCAMS! The whole fraudulent system!
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