The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Trailer
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The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Our two-part series starts September 27th, exposing the inside story of the failed crypto currency exchange & the contentious bankruptcy that followed.
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| 0:00.0 | It was an open and shut case. |
| 0:02.3 | From Crypto King to criminal suspects, Sam Bankington, |
| 0:06.0 | the darling of crypto and one of the world's youngest billionaires became an arch villain. |
| 0:11.6 | Sam Bankman Free perpetrated one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. |
| 0:16.8 | Crypto was in free fall. |
| 0:18.7 | Customers lost billions. |
| 0:20.6 | And Sam... |
| 0:21.6 | I ended up in federal prison, and that's where I am today. |
| 0:26.1 | Through exclusive interviews with Sam Bankman Freed and others, we tell the story of FTX's |
| 0:31.2 | rise and fall from the inside. |
| 0:34.0 | All that we were told was there's been a run on the bank. |
| 0:39.4 | Somehow money is missing, and we don't know who to trust. |
| 0:44.2 | And we uncover the story of how the law firm in charge of recovering investors' money cashed in on the bankruptcy. |
| 0:50.9 | I was fuming. I was furious because these people, they were playing around with our money. |
| 0:58.2 | Our two-part series, The Secret Story of FTX's Rise and Ruin, begins September 27th. |
| 1:04.7 | Listen by subscribing to Reveal wherever you get your podcasts. |
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