SBF Takes the Stand
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🗓️ 28 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The man at the center of it all takes the stand in his own defense—but what’s left to say?
Guest: Nitish Pahwa, associate business and tech writer covering the trial for Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Natesh. |
| 0:06.2 | Hi, Lizzie. |
| 0:08.4 | Where are you right now? |
| 0:10.4 | I am sitting in a corner right outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouse at the |
| 0:17.5 | Southern District of New York. |
| 0:21.3 | Slates, Natesh, is there covering the trial of Sam Beckman-Freed, the disgraced founder |
| 0:26.5 | and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX? |
| 0:30.6 | Beckman-Freed, also known as SBF, did testify on Thursday, but it was more of a back-and-forth |
| 0:37.0 | between lawyers and the judge. |
| 0:39.3 | The main event for the jury to hear was on Friday. |
| 0:43.5 | And this was the big day, Sam Beckman-Freed testified, what's the scene there, what was |
| 0:49.2 | it like when you got there? |
| 0:50.8 | We've been generally trying to get here pretty early in the mornings to, you know, try |
| 0:55.7 | to get a courtroom perspective, maybe. |
| 0:58.9 | What I did not count on was people literally getting here in some cases at like 3 a.m. |
| 1:04.8 | 2.30 a.m. to get their spots. |
| 1:08.8 | And I mean, they got them, you know, applause to them. |
| 1:12.4 | I am glad that they were able to make the effort. |
| 1:15.0 | I hope they get a lot of sleep after, but yeah, I got here at 6 a.m. and I think I was |
| 1:20.6 | today 37th officially in line, yeah. |
| 1:25.4 | And there were many, many more behind us, of course. |
| 1:28.6 | Beckman-Freed faces seven charges of fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy. |
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