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Hot News No. 23 Explainer: What happens next in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud case
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to fraud and other charges related to the collapse of his $32 billion crypto empire, with a judge setting an October trial date as both sides prepare to sift through mountains of...
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Hot News No. 22 Disgraced ‘crypto king’ Sam Bankman-Fried released on $250m bail – the biggest in pretrial history
The disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried has been released on a $250m (£208m) bond package as he awaits fraud charges, the biggest pretrial bond in history. The bond was signed by his parents, who agreed to keep him under house arrest at their home in...
Hot News No. 21 Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX founder arrested in BahamasHot News No. 21
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been arrested in The Bahamas, the country's attorney general has said. He is scheduled to appear on Tuesday in a magistrates' court in the Caribbean country's capital, Nassau. Police said Mr...
Hot News No. 20 FTX founder Bankman-Fried facing market rigging probe
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is being investigated by authorities in the United States to determine if he manipulated the market for two cryptocurrencies, leading to their collapse and the implosion of his own cryptocurrency exchange, according to a New York Times...
Hot News No. 19 FTX Chronology Summary of the case
FTX’s unexpected collapse left the cryptocurrency market and its investors reeling. Here’s a timeline of how this all happened. FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange based in the Bahamas. It was founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2019 and lets users buy, sell, hold, and trade...
Hot News No. 18 FTX Exclusive: At least $1 billion of client funds missing at failed crypto firm FTX
At least $1 billion of customer funds have vanished from collapsed crypto exchange FTX, according to two people familiar with the matter. The exchange's founder Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to Bankman-Fried's trading...
Hot News No. 17 US lawsuit launched against FTX founder and celebrity backers
A class action lawsuit has been launched against FTX’s former chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried over the crypto exchange’s collapse which also names as defendants a host of its celebrity backers including Larry David, Naomi Osaka, Gisele Bündchen and Shaquille O’Neal…...
Hot News No. 16 Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network
Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network said on Thursday that it has filed a motion to extend the exclusivity period for its reorganization plan, allowing the lender to take more time to work on that plan. Celsius is facing a slew of lawsuits in addition to its...