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The Trial of Crypto’s Golden Boy: What Happens Next?

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News, Daily News

4.25.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried is over. Rachel Humphreys and Caitlin Ostroff reflect on their month at court and answer outstanding questions about what happened at FTX, the trial and what comes next. Plus they reveal the final court cafeteria coffee tally. Further Reading: - Smoked Fish, Shaggy Hair and Tears: 8 Unforgettable Moments From Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial Further Listening: - The Trial of Crypto’s Golden Boy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Caitlin, it's been a week since the verdict in the Sandbankman-free trial and I don't know about you but I'm still recovering.

0:15.0

Yeah, starting to catch up on sleep but it's been still going.

0:19.0

Yeah, my body is still thinking at 5 a.m. that it's time to go and line up outside the Southern

0:23.7

District of New York Courthouse and... What else do you do at 5 a.m? What else do you do?

0:29.0

But before that verdict came in last week, we asked you, our listeners, to send in questions that you have about the trial, and a lot of you did, which was great, thank you.

0:41.0

Yeah, so many great questions.

0:43.0

Yeah, a lot of great questions on a range of topics.

0:46.0

So today we're going to spend some time answering them.

0:48.9

From the journal, this is the trial of crypto's golden boy. I'm Caitlin Ostroff and I'm Rachel Humphreys.

1:02.0

Coming up, your questions answered. Oh, We've had so many questions about different aspects of this trial and I thought we should start with about the

1:35.0

questions about the man at the center of it.

1:37.0

This came from Cindy Richardson.

1:40.0

Cindy wants to know, Caitlin, what was Bankman Freed's demeanor during the trial how would you describe it?

1:47.1

Yeah it was a bit difficult to gauge because if you're in the courtroom you're sitting

1:52.4

behind Bankman Freed so you're in the courtroom you're sitting behind Bankman Freed,

1:54.3

so you're staring at the back of his head.

1:56.5

And if you're in one of the overflow rooms

1:58.2

where they kind of show you what's happening in the courtroom,

2:02.0

you see his face a bit on the screen but you have kind of this bird's eye view

2:05.6

almost and so you don't have a great look at what his facial expressions are.

2:11.0

And I can say as someone who tried it, doesn't matter how close you get your

2:13.5

face to the screen, you can't make out an expression very clearly.

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