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Sam Bankman-Fried Sent to Jail After Judge Revokes Bail

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was sent to jail on Friday after a federal judge in New York revoked his bail, accusing him of trying […]




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Caroline Ellison Writes About Ex-Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried

Three months before the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Caroline Ellison, the 27-year-old chief executive of the crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, was racked with self-doubt.“I have been feeling pretty […]




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Mountain of FTX Evidence: Emails, Chat Logs, Code and a Notebook

Snippets of computer code. More than six million pages of emails, Slack messages and other digital records. And a small black notebook, filled with handwritten observations.For months, federal prosecutors building […]




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‘Effective Altruism’ Led Bankman-Fried to a Little-Known Wall St. Firm

To close observers of Wall Street, the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried carried a curious twist: The man whose unbridled recklessness may have led to one of the largest financial frauds […]




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The Unknown Hedge Fund That Got $400 Million From Sam Bankman-Fried

Not long before FTX collapsed in November, its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, sent $400 million to an obscure cryptocurrency trading firm called Modulo Capital.The fledgling firm, which was founded in March […]




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FTX Executives Expressed Concern Over Use of Customer Funds, Documents Show

Lawyers for Mr. Wang and Mr. Singh declined to comment. A lawyer for Ms. Ellison did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office […]




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SEC Fines Steve Easterbrook, McDonald’s Ex-CEO

McDonald’s ex-C.E.O. pays for his firing scandal Three years after being fired as McDonald’s C.E.O. over what was eventually revealed as several inappropriate personal relationships with employees, Steve Easterbrook on […]




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Caroline Ellison Says She Is ‘Truly Sorry’ for Her Role in FTX Collapse

A former top executive at a trading firm closely tied to FTX said she was “truly sorry” for defrauding customers, investors and lenders in pleading guilty to criminal charges stemming […]




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Caroline Ellison and FTX Co-Founder Gary Wang Plead Guilty to Fraud

Two former top executives of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto trading empire have pleaded guilty to federal criminal fraud charges and are cooperating in the prosecution of the disgraced crypto entrepreneur, the […]




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Caroline Ellison Was a Little-Known Crypto Trader. Then FTX Collapsed.

When his cryptocurrency exchange started teetering in early November, Sam Bankman-Fried went on Twitter to calm everyone down. FTX was fine, he insisted. Nothing to worry about. Joining him in […]