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The former CEO of FTX constantly met with renowned persons just before the exchange went bankrupt

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Sam Bankman-Fried traveled constantly and met with government officials and traders in September 2022.

Day ten of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial: The former FTX CEO constantly met with renowned persons just before the exchange went bankrupt. Photo: Wall Street Journal

Continuing the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former FTX CEO’s defense lawyer opened by questioning former chief technical officer Nishad Singh, who had testified the preceding day.

Defense attorney confronts Nishad Singh

On the ninth day of trial, Nishad Singh proved by means of his testimony that he was the one particular who attempted to avert Sam Bankman-Fried from producing extreme investments, marketing sponsorships and political donations to a lot of, and at the identical time he stated that he felt quite shocked from the fraudulent conduct of the exchange.

However, answering concerns from defense attorney Sam Bankman-Fried, Mr. Singh admitted that some marketing sponsorships are needed to enhance coverage of FTX’s picture in the media, as properly as But some investments have true likely, this kind of as intelligence artificial Anthropic firm.

Furthermore, the defense attorney also exploited gaps in the testimony of FTX’s former technical director when he bought a property really worth $four million in October 2022, just a month just before FTX went bankrupt and right after when this man or woman was mindful of the economic troubles the floor was dealing with.

Mr Singh now admits that his determination to obtain a property at the time was “really bad, unnecessary and selfish”.

Sam Bankman-Fried meets a lot of renowned persons

The prosecutor then identified as a new witness, Richard Busick, an FBI agent who specializes in cell cell phone monitoring.

Busick explained he was tasked with investigating Sam Bankman-Fried’s movements among June 2021 and November 2022 based mostly on cell cell phone signals. This information, mixed with emails collected by U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors, demonstrates that Sam Bankman-Fried had an particularly active routine in September 2022.

Specifically, the former CEO of FTX had meetings with former US President Bill Clinton, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, chairman of Saudi Aramco National Petroleum Corporation of Saudi Arabia.

Previously, in March 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried also met with New York Mayor Eric Adams.

The articles of the over meetings was not disclosed in court.

Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, also confirmed a couple of days in the past in testimony that Sam Bankman-Fried flew to Saudi Arabia in September 2022 to seek out new traders for the exchange and even met with Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Thailand.

However, when the defense lawyer asked him if it was attainable to establish who was making use of the cell phone, Officer Busick explained he could not be absolutely sure.

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