UNCHAINED: Another Bad Week for Sam Bankman-Fried in His Criminal Trial
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Sam Bankman-Fried is facing an even more difficult task in proving his innocence after this week’s compelling testimony by the last member of his inner circle.
Sam Enzer, a partner at the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel, told Laura that compelling evidence from Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle had increased the difficulty for the fallen FTX CEO to convince a jury of his innocence. Former FTX head engineer Nishad Singh said that he became suicidal after understanding the full magnitude of FTX’s misuse of customer funds, while ex-chief legal counsel Can Sun helped show how SBF allegedly lied to lawyers.
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Show highlights |
- Sam (Enzer’s) thoughts on how the trial is going for the defense
- what Nishad Singh's emotional testimony revealed about SBF
- how Singh felt "betrayed" by Bankman-Fried, who may have been a big brother figure to him
- why the defense went much harder after Singh in its defense than it did the other members of the inner circle
- whether the jury felt empathy with Singh about his suicidal feelings
- what the rationale was behind the order of the witnesses
- why Sam believes that the accounting professor Peter Easton's testimony was "damning" for the defense
- whether the testimony of former FTX general counsel proved that SBF lied to his own lawyers
- why the communications between SBF and his lawyer, which are generally privileged, were divulged in court
- why Sam believes that it's likely that SBF will testify, although he would advise him not to
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Guest |
Sam Enzer, partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
Previous appearances on Unchained:
Why These Lawyers Say It's Over for SBF-But His Only Hail Mary Is to Testify
SBF Trial: How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Might Try and Win His Case
SBF’s Lawyers Could Be Annoying the Judge. How Might That Impact the Trial?
Links |
Previous coverage by Unchained on the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried:
How Heated Sidebars During the SBF Trial Could Impact the Jury’s Decision
SBF Trial, Day 1: Possible Witnesses Include FTX Insiders, Big Names in Crypto, and SBF’s Family
SBF Trial, Day 3: Why a True Believer in FTX Flipped Once He Learned One Fact
SBF Trial, Day 4: SBF’s Lawyers Annoy Judge Kaplan, While Wang Reveals Alameda’s Special Privileges
Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Here's Everything That Happened So Far
SBF Trial, Day 5: SBF's Defense Finally Found Its Legs, But Can It Counter Caroline Ellison?
SBF Trial, Day 6: Caroline Ellison Recalls 'The Worst Week of My Life'
SBF Trial, Day 7: In SBF Trial, Did the Defense Lose Its Opportunity With the Star Witness?
SBF Trial, Day 8: Former BlockFi CEO Adds Credibility to Fraud Charges
SBF Trial, Day 9: Nishad Singh Describes Former FTX CEO as a Bully and Big Spender
SBF Trial, Day 10: Defense Struggles to Discredit Nishad Singh's Testimony
SBF Trial, Day 11: How Alameda Got FTX Into a $9 Billion Hole
Did Sam Bankman-Fried Have Intent to Defraud FTX Investors?
Good Morning America:
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried on crypto giant's collapse: 'A lot of people got hurt. And that's on me'
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| 1:06.1 | I would agree with your assessment that this is not going well for SBF. |
| 1:12.0 | The evidence is utterly overwhelming. |
| 1:15.8 | I don't think there has been a cohesive theme or narrative to the defense. |
| 1:22.0 | It is hard for the defense sometimes to have a theme when they are basically only have cross-examination. |
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