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    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      Sam Bankman-Fried said to have taken $2.2bn from FTX entities

      Inquiry by bankrupt crypto exchange’s new management identifies $3.2bn in transfers to inner circle

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      SBF got $2.2bn from Alameda and FTX, court docs say

      Not including $240mn for “luxury property in the Bahamas” etc

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Due Diligence
      Management consultants drop the axe on themselves Premium content

      Plus, prosecutors mount new criminal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried and KKR promotes two dealmaking veterans

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      New SBF indictment docs just dropped

      The greatest hits

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      FTX founder hit with further criminal charges

      US prosecutors claim Sam Bankman-Fried sought to influence politicians with donations to campaigns

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      Third high-level FTX executive nears US plea deal

      Nishad Singh was a close associate of Sam Bankman-Fried, who founded the now-bankrupt crypto exchange

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      US judge questions Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions

      Prosecutors grilled over whether pre-trial confinement measures for FTX founder are tough enough

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      New SBF bail docs just dropped

      Featuring the non-family bail signatories

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail guarantors included former Stanford Law dean

      Two academics who worked at same university as FTX founder’s parents helped secure bond for his release

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      FT Magazine
      ‘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

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      Robinhood
      Robinhood seeking to buy back stock seized from FTX founder Bankman-Fried

      US retail broker in talks with Department of Justice over contested shares worth $575mn

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      Prosecutors ask court to ban Bankman-Fried from contacting FTX colleagues

      US government alleges crypto founder communicated with potential witnesses in his criminal trial

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      FTX lawyers accuse Sam Bankman-Fried of ‘assault by Twitter’

      Collapsed crypto exchange’s founder has been critical of Sullivan & Cromwell’s role in bankruptcy process

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Semafor
      Semafor explores options to buy out Sam Bankman-Fried’s interest

      Disgraced FTX founder was media start-up’s biggest outside backer

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      Musk, FTX and the politicisation of everything Premium content

      Both the left and right have tried to turn business dramas into political theatre. Will it ever end?

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      Sullivan & Cromwell’s role in FTX bankruptcy under rising scrutiny

      Sam Bankman-Fried and another former executive say Wall St firm has understated scale of work with crypto exchange

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      News in-depthFTX Trading Ltd
      Wall Street’s top cop trains his sights on crypto

      Damian Williams faces big test in prosecuting high-profile case against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      FTX boss invested in Paradigm fund that backed his crypto exchange

      Court documents shed light on Sam Bankman-Fried’s circular transactions

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      FTX’s US and Bahamas bankruptcy teams make peace in rival cases

      Sides agree to set aside feud and work together to wind up Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed cryptocurrency exchange

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to criminal charges over FTX collapse

      US judge sets October 2 trial date for founder of bankrupt crypto exchange

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      FTX Trading Ltd
      Bankman-Fried associate admits to misuse of FTX customer funds

      Testimony from Alameda’s Caroline Ellison comes after agreement to co-operate with prosecutors in fraud case

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      FTX Trading Ltd
      FTX US auditor Armanino defends work for failed crypto exchange

      Accounting firm gave clean bill of health to financial statements from Sam Bankman-Fried’s US business

    • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
      FTX founder Bankman-Fried to be released on $250mn bond

      Former boss of collapsed crypto exchange makes his first appearance in Manhattan federal court on US criminal charges

    • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
      FTX Trading Ltd
      Bankman-Fried’s top FTX associates plead guilty to US charges

      Federal prosecutor says Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are co-operating as crypto entrepreneur is extradited to US

    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
      Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Bahamas for the US

      FTX founder expected to appear in New York court as soon as Thursday morning to face criminal charges

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