United States v. BANKMAN-FRIED (FTX collapse/fraud)

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Sam Bankman-Fried Shifts From Trading Canned Mackerels To Offering Crypto Tips To Guards: Report​

Incarcerated FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has reportedly provided cryptocurrency investment advice to prison guards at a Brooklyn facility, including promoting Solana.

What Happened: Despite his incarceration at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Bankman-Fried has reportedly been offering investment tips to prison guards, as per an unnamed source cited by The New York Times on Tuesday.

Bankman-Fried, who has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center since August, is facing significant challenges, including the lack of internet access for inmates.

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for the massive fraud and conspiracy that doomed his cryptocurrency exchange and a related hedge fund.

The sentence in Manhattan federal court was significantly less than the 40 to 50 years in prison that federal prosecutors wanted for Bankman-Fried, and much more than the five to six-and-a-half years that his lawyers had suggested.
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bets on how many years he really gets....? Out in 5? Pardoned by Biden??

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison​

Updated 3:29 p.m. ET, March 28, 2024

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March 28 2024: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

Sam Bankman-Fried returns to Manhattan federal court Thursday for sentencing that could land him in prison for the next half-century. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
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How Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend and early recruit helped put the FTX founder behind bars for 25 years​

  • Caroline Ellison was the prosecution’s star witness in its case against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison.
  • Ellison, who ran FTX’s sister hedge fund Alameda Research, pleaded guilty in December 2022 and has yet to face sentencing.
  • Ellison was one of Bankman-Fried’s earliest recruits when he entered the crypto market.
In sentencing FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to a 25-year prison sentence on Thursday, Judge Lewis Kaplan cited testimony from Caroline Ellison, an ex-girlfriend of the defendant and early recruit into his crypto enterprise.

“I keep coming back to Ms. Ellison’s testimony that he knew it was wrong,” Kaplan said at the sentencing hearing in downtown Manhattan. “He knew it was criminal.”

Ellison was the star witness for the Department of Justice in its prosecution of Bankman-Fried. She agreed to a plea deal in December 2022, a month after FTX spiraled into bankruptcy.

As part of her testimony at the criminal trial late last year, Ellison supplied the government and the jury with text messages, documents and secret recordings that ultimately helped lead to Bankman-Fried’s conviction on all seven charges against him.

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Of course he knew it was wrong. He thought he was going to get away with it too. Hubris.
 
What he stole is a nice tidy little pile. So he goes to Club Fed for 25 years, comes out, digs up his bitcoin, and he's richer than most white-collar worker-savers at similar ages.

We've all known someone who chooses a different route - working on an oil platform, or going into the coal mines, for huge money. Work 25 years there, then retire, with a pile of money and a pension, also.

Some people did very well that way, retiring at 50 or so and living like country squires; but Bankrupt-Fraud will have it much better. And if bitcoin's value survives, he'll have beat the inflation train-wreck, too.
 
FTX, Alameda Ordered to Pay $12.7B to Creditors by U.S. Judge

The order doesn't include civil penalties but bans FTX and its sister concern, Alameda, formerly a heavyweight crypto market maker, from trading digital assets and acting as intermediaries in the market.

  • FTX and trading firm Alameda Research will pay $12.7 billion to creditors after the approval of a consent order by a New York judge, ending a lawsuit from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
  • The order bans FTX and Alameda from trading digital assets and acting as intermediaries in the market, but does not include civil penalties.

Defunct crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research will pay $12.7 billion to creditors as a New York judge officially approved a consent order on Wednesday, ending a 20-month-long lawsuit from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

United States District Judge Peter Castel passed the approval on August 7, a filing shows. It did not seek a civil monetary penalty.

The order doesn't include civil penalties but bans FTX and its sister concern, Alameda, formerly a heavyweight crypto market maker, from trading digital assets and acting as intermediaries in the market.

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www.coindesk.com

FTX, Alameda Ordered to Pay $12.7B to Creditors by U.S. Judge

The order doesn't include civil penalties but bans FTX and its sister concern, Alameda, formerly a heavyweight crypto market maker, from trading digital assets and acting as intermediaries in the market.
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I wasn't aware that they were still operating.
 
Casey Jones said:
What he stole is a nice tidy little pile. So he goes to Club Fed for 25 years, comes out, digs up his bitcoin, and he's richer than most white-collar worker-savers at similar ages.

We've all known someone who chooses a different route - working on an oil platform, or going into the coal mines, for huge money. Work 25 years there, then retire, with a pile of money and a pension, also.

Some people did very well that way, retiring at 50 or so and living like country squires; but Bankrupt-Fraud will have it much better. And if bitcoin's value survives, he'll have beat the inflation train-wreck, too.
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After the election the Bidders will have pardons for sale. It won't matter though. He can get out now or in 25 years. Whenever that is he will be watched very carefully by the feds. At some point during his trial I would be very surprised if he didn't fill out and list all of his assets. If he has millions or billions in BTC, the minute he starts to spend they get him on more charges for fraudulent court filings and back to club fed he goes.
 
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United States Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey has approved a plan for defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX to wind down its operations as part of efforts to repay users.

In an Oct. 7 hearing in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Judge Dorsey approved FTX’s liquidation plan. The plan will allow the exchange’s debtors to repay 98% of users roughly 119% of their claimed account value. ...
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Nishad Singh, former director of engineering at FTX and a one-time member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle, was sentenced to time served by a federal judge on Wednesday, meaning he's not going to prison like his former colleagues.

He was also ordered to pay $11 billion in restitution.

Singh, 29, who pleaded guilty to six criminal counts including wire fraud and conspiracy in February, is the fourth FTX executive to be sentenced for his role in the fraud. Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison in March for his role as ringleader. Former FTX Digital Markets CEO Ryan Salame, who did not testify against Bankman-Fried, recently began serving his 7.5 year prison sentence. And Caroline Ellison, former Alameda Research CEO and one-time girlfriend of Bankman-Fried, was sentenced to two years by the same judge, District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York (SDNY), last month – her sentence heavily discounted by her prompt and extensive cooperation with prosecutors.

Though Kaplan sounded sympathetic to Ellison during her sentencing last month, he contrasted her long-time involvement in and awareness of Bankman-Fried's fraud with Singh, who was out of the loop until only two months before the exchange collapsed.
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www.coindesk.com

FTX's Nishad Singh Gets No Prison Time for Role in Crypto Exchange Collapse

Singh, who was sentenced to time served, is the fourth FTX executive to be sentenced for his role in the fraud.
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Someone_else said:
Well, that is a hope.
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Hopefully, if these dummies were smart they put a little away for a rainy day... probably not, but if you're going to be doing shady business deals and serving time, you might consider that future possibility?

'Be Prepared" is a motto for a reason.
 
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has taken legal action against rival Binance and former Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao over an alleged fraudulent repurchase of shares by FTX's former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried.
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FTX alleges that Zhao sought to harm his competitor by sending out a series of tweets about the company that were "false, misleading and fraudulent," and destroyed value that would have otherwise been recoverable by FTX’s stakeholders, according to the filing.

In response to FTX's action, a Binance spokesperson said “The claims are meritless, and we will vigorously defend ourselves," in an emailed statement shared with CoinDesk.
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www.coindesk.com

FTX Sues Binance, Former CEO CZ for $1.8B

The filing alleges that FTX was already insolvent and the FTT tokens used in a share repurchase transaction were worthless, and therefore the transfer should be classed as fraudulent
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If the courts find merit in the complaint, Binance could end up taking a financial hit though I suspect it won't cripple/kill them.
 
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