DAY 690: Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The former head of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government. Meantime, Special Counsel Jack Smith issues new subpoenas in the Trump probe. Plus, the lack of reporting from police agencies nationwide is casting doubt on the FBI’s latest report on hate crimes. Amna Nawaz, Luke Broadwater, Andrew Weissmann, Jonathan Greenblatt, Frank Figliuzzi, Brendan Buck, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Brian Schwartz join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, major developments in the pursuit of accountability.
0:08.2	In the January 6th investigation, newly surfaced texts from Trump's Chief of Staff to GOP members
0:14.1	of Congress about overturning the election and even more subpoenas in the federal investigation.
0:19.6	Also breaking tonight, the former CEO of FTX now in custody in the Bahamas, criminal
0:26.3	charges against Sam Bankman-Freeze expected in the morning.
0:30.1	Plus an incomplete but still troubling report on the rise of hate crimes just out from the
0:35.7	FBI, how the White House is responding to growing anti-Semitism across the country.
0:41.2	All that and more as the 11th hour gets underway on this Monday night.
0:47.2	Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule.
0:52.8	I'm having a hard time getting my own name out.
0:55.3	We begin this evening with breaking business news, crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Freeze, the
1:00.1	founder and one time CEO of the collapsed FTX exchange is under arrest tonight.
1:06.5	He was taken into custody in the Bahamas late this afternoon.
1:09.9	Federal prosecutors in New York say Bankman-Freeze was arrested at the request of the US government.
1:15.5	They say a sealed indictment has been filed and will be unsealed tomorrow.
1:19.5	We'll have more on this developing story just ahead.
1:22.6	As the Justice Department is moving to hold the former crypto king accountable for the
1:26.5	implosion of FTX and the billions in missing funds, prosecutors are also pushing forward
1:32.1	in their investigation into former president Donald Trump.
1:36.0	Special counsel Jack Smith has now issued a subpoena for documents to Georgia's Secretary
1:41.1	of State, Brad Rapinsberger.
1:43.0	Remember, here's what Trump was asking him in January of 2021 that was of course just
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