Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at court on June 15, 2023
SBF offers wooden ‘regret’ for not questioning highly unusual arrangement that netted his fund billions
Bankman-Fried, wearing a gray suit and purple tie, stood calmly with his hands folded across his lap as the verdict was read in a packed Manhattan federal courtroom Thursday night. The cocky math whiz was then confronted with a mountain of tweets, emails, congressional appearances and media interviews revealing that he did did in fact say dozens of things he claimed not to remember.
“To believe the defendant’s story you’d have to ignore all the evidence,” prosecutor Nicholas Roos added in his closing statement this week. “You would have to ignore the testimony of his partners in crime.” “We’ll agree that there was a time that Sam probably was the worst-dressed CEO in the world and probably had the worst haircut,” Cohen quipped in his closing statement. “That’s not a crime.”The feds’ first witness was French cocoa trader Marc-Antoine Julliard testified that he was never able to retrieve funds worth around $100,000 after seeing ads and interviews depicting Bankman-Fried as the “future face of the crypto industry.
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