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Follow the Sam Bankman-Fried trial after the collapse of his FTX crypto empire.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Defense Has 6 Witnesses to Open With: DOJ

The DOJ filing did not name any of the potential defense witnesses, and it's still unclear whether Bankman-Fried himself will testify.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: One Expert Witness

Bankman-Fried's defense team has revealed its sole proposed expert witness, who’ll try to point out flaws in the DOJ’s presentations.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Proposes Financial Expert as Witness to Rebut DOJ Testimony

The defense intends to call Joseph Pimbley, a financial services expert and consultant, to testify about FTX's and Alameda's financials.

Sam Bankman-Fried outside court in July 2023. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: It’s the Courthouse Life for Us

To get a courtroom seat, you gotta show up early: at least 7:30 a.m. The overflow room is more relaxed, but there’s no Sam, just his televised image.

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The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Our Favorite Quotes, So Far

"I don't understand the cryptocurrency,” and other bangers uttered in the courtroom.

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Sam Bankman-Fried's Lawyers, DOJ Propose Final Sets of Jury Instructions

The parties to the criminal fraud trial expect to wrap up witness testimony in the coming weeks.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried exiting a federal courthouse in New York last year. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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'Absolutely Not': FTX's Former General Counsel Says He Never Approved Loans of Customer Funds

Can Sun, FTX's general counsel from August 2021 to the time of the exchange’s collapse in November 2022, testified in the Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial.

Can Sun, former FTX general counsel, leaves a New York courthouse after testifying against Sam Bankman-Fried on Oct. 19, 2023. (Nik De/CoinDesk)

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Judge Kaplan's Ire Hits All Lawyers in the Sam Bankman-Fried Case

“This is a joke," the judge told the attorneys after a bizarre bit of testimony.

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FTX Used Billions in Customer Funds to Buy Back Binance Stake

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a 2022 post the company had received over $2.1 billion in binance usd (BUSD) stablecoins and FTX’s FTT tokens.

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‘Oh, Yes’: Accounting Prof Says Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Definitely Mishandled Customers' Money

For starters, customer funds were behind a majority of FTX’s investment into Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital, Peter Easton testifies.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO, FTX and Christine Lee, Lead Anchor, CoinDesk