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SBF's Worst Week Yet

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Even in a crazy year for crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried’s story is undeniably the most bananas. And even in the context of the implosion of FTX, getting arrested has got to make this week his worst yet. What charges does SBF face?


Guest: Stacy-Marie Ishmael, managing editor on crypto for Bloomberg News


Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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Stacey Marie Ishmael is no stranger to covering white collar crime. She's seen companies employed and executives go to prison.

1:23.0

But even she found the speed with which FTX collapsed and

1:27.0

Sandbackman Fried was arrested to be dizzying.

1:30.0

I think that looking at the timing from filing for bankruptcy

1:35.0

or even forget filing for bankruptcy,

1:37.0

saying alluding to the fact that they were potentially in distress,

1:40.0

potentially having takeover conversations with Binance

1:44.0

to then filing for bankruptcy and then in the space of about a month

1:49.0

after that being taken under arrest.

1:53.0

So that does strike me as an unusually quick process.

1:59.0

Stacey Marie is the managing editor for crypto at Bloomberg News.

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