FTX founder, once the darling of Washington and Silicon Valley, blamed his ex-girlfriend and said ‘I do not recall’ a lot
Nearly a month after the start of his fraud trial, Sam Bankman-Fried, the one-time cryptocurrency mogul, took the witness stand in his own defense in a risky move that exposed him to prosecutors’ probing.
Bankman-Fried, the founder of crypto exchange FTX, spent three days answering questions before a jury, in an 11th-hour attempt to counter the damning, detailed testimony against him from members of his inner circle.
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