Sam Bankman-Fried’s fate is sealed by his own words

© The Financial Times Limited 2024. All Rights Reserved. Not to be redistributed, copied or modified in any way. By the age of 30, Sam Bankman-Fried had convinced a million people that he was a safe custodian of their hard-earned cash. But stood in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, head of curly hair bowed, the […]

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Apr 1, 2024 - 03:38
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By the age of 30, Sam Bankman-Fried had convinced a million people that he was a safe custodian of their hard-earned cash.

But stood in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, head of curly hair bowed, the one-time master of persuasion failed to win over the person who, in that moment, mattered most: a federal judge who would soon consign him to a quarter-century behind bars.

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