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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Sam Bankman-Fried gets indicted

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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U.S. prosecutors have charged Sam Bankman freed with eight counts including wire fraud, money

0:12.9

laundering, conspiracy, and campaign finance violations.

0:17.8

So these charges come on top of what the Securities and Exchange Commission have already

0:22.8

filed.

0:23.8

And he was denied bail by a Bahamut judge, as prosecutors say he had $300 million in

0:31.2

a Brazilian firm before the collapse of his FTX crypto company.

0:37.4

So he was indicted yesterday, and I want to play you a little audio, so he did not have

0:42.0

to testify in front of Congress.

0:46.6

I think the guy that has kind of taken over, the same guy who took over during Inron was

0:52.4

in front of Congress yesterday.

0:54.3

And my favorite part of his testimony was apparently the FTX guy was using QuickBooks to keep

1:01.1

track of the donations.

1:03.7

And the guy, I felt bad for him because he's going, he goes, I'm not in any way trying

1:08.5

to diminish QuickBooks, but he's like, if you're a multi-billion dollar industry, probably

1:13.9

needs a little better accounting firm than QuickBooks.

1:16.5

A little upgrade, huh?

1:17.8

So the indictment came down yesterday and I want to play you a little audio from the prosecutor

1:21.9

because it's about a three minute clip.

1:24.7

And the first minute and a half is fine.

1:26.7

He goes through the here are the charges, here's what he's being accused of, et cetera,

1:32.0

et cetera.

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