SBF Trial, Day 5: SBF's Defense Finally Found Its Legs, But Can It Counter Caroline Ellison?
Unchained
Laura Shin
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Laura here. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Unchained Recap for Day 5 October 10th of the Criminal Trial of Sam Pinkman |
| 0:10.5 | Freed. |
| 0:11.8 | On Tuesday, at the start of the second week in the Criminal Trial of Sam Pinkman Freed, |
| 0:16.2 | the former FTX CEO's defense lawyers finally seemed to make some headway after what was |
| 0:21.3 | largely seen as an ineffectual first week. |
| 0:24.5 | However, in the afternoon, Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and the |
| 0:30.1 | ex-girlfriend of SBF, testified. |
| 0:33.5 | Setting the stage for what looks like, Ellison and Pinkman Freed blaming each other for |
| 0:38.4 | Alameda's usage of FTX customer funds to pay the trading firm's debts. |
| 0:43.3 | Ellison followed Gary Wong, the co-founder of Alameda and FTX, who testified against Pinkman |
| 0:48.7 | Freed for a third day. |
| 0:50.8 | It was the first time the defense did not use many repetitive questions and instead |
| 0:55.6 | mounted a coherent line of argument to undercut some of Wong's testimony to the prosecution. |
| 1:01.3 | Still, by the end, it seemed that Wong was a yes-man, who mostly followed orders from |
| 1:06.7 | Pinkman Freed. |
| 1:08.2 | In one example, Wong noted that bitcoin's price in May and June of 2022 slid dramatically, |
| 1:14.4 | causing Alameda's lenders to ask for their money back. |
| 1:17.3 | As a result, Wong and top executives started calculating Alameda's balance on FTX to see |
| 1:22.8 | whether the trading firm could pay back its loans. |
| 1:26.0 | Defense lawyer Mark Cohen highlighted the difference between Alameda's total assets and Alameda's |
| 1:30.9 | balance on FTX, specifically how Alameda had balances and assets external to FTX. |
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