Elizabeth Lopatto
The bankruptcy experts weigh in on WeWork.
I am theoretically on vacation (🌴) but this was too good not to share. Please enjoy!
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Ask us anything: Liz Lopatto and CoinDesk’s Danny Nelson answer your questions about the Sam Bankman-Fried trial at 4PM New York time.
We’ve got the goss on early wake-ups, lawyer fashion, courtroom sketches, and other pressing matters. Go ahead and leave a question here if you’ve got one... [Arnold voice] I’ll be back.
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That defense amounted to SBF saying, “I’m innocent because my customers were dumb enough to believe me.”
Kevin Dugan’s overview really sums it up: stripped of the affectations, we discovered there wasn’t much to Sam Bankman-Fried at all.
The Real SBF Stood Up
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Over five weeks, the FTX founder’s parents watched from the galleys — deluded, humiliated, and finally, defeated.
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Mistakes aren’t illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried’s lawyers never made his defense land.
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His employees told him he ‘should stop asking questions because it was distracting.’
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This review of two Sam Bankman-Fried books is absolutely worth your time.
One of the books, Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up, was given to Bankman-Fried on the witness stand yesterday (He did not recall anything he was quoted as saying, naturally). The author of the other, Michael Lewis, was sitting in the gallery.
As an avowed John Lanchester fangirl, you can imagine the delighted, high-pitched noise I made when I saw he’d reviewed both books.
John Lanchester · He-Said, They-Said: Crypto Corruption · LRB 2 November 2023
[London Review of Books]
Bankman-Fried gets a shot at his side of the FTX story — then promptly shreds his own credibility with the jury.
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Somehow, the least suspicious parts of his defense are the 288 auto-deleting Signal conversations.
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