The verdict concludes a stunning fall from grace for the 31-year-old former billionaire.
  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
    151·
    1 year ago

    I’ll be very annoyed when he’s probably just sentenced to mansion house arrest, but for now I’ll accept this good news.

    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      This guy didn’t just steal from little traders, he tried to pull a fast one on his overlords as well. He made the same mistake Madoff did. He’s going away for a long time.

      • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.comEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        He made the same mistake Madoff did

        Also what the fuck are you talking about here? Madoff turned himself in because no one in the SEC would look at the DTCCs books. Not to mention his other fleece of payment for order flow is now an industry standard for almost all brokers and market makers.

        • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t say he’s like Madoff. I would say he’s like Elizabeth Holmes (the Theranos cunt).

      • fiat_lux@kbin.social
        52·
        1 year ago

        Fair point, but maybe he’s another one of these people who will get special considerations for information about larger companies that a government needs for evidence.

        Who knows? I ought to stop cynically speculating, but the world is making it hard not to.

        I do hope he’s another Shkreli though, who annoyed the old money boomers with his ostentatious nouveau riche antics enough to become their poster-manchild for their “See? Bad things do (sometimes) happen to bad rich people!” campaigns.

        • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.comEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Hate to break it to you, ftx’s biggest scam was in tokenized securities still being traded today and being used as free locates for market makers without any real shares backing these things. Wall Street is so fucking corrupt its not even funny.

          • fiat_lux@kbin.social
            51·
            1 year ago

            For sure. Which is one reason I expect house arrest is so likely. All it takes is for one of the major multiglobals to be in some scheme that the government has decided to crack down on, and there’s your leverage in sentencing negotiation. It’s why I’ve given up on the concept of rich people going to prison, there’s always another fish they can offer up for frying, because billionaire social circles are tiny.

      • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        No he was creating free locates for market makers with tokenized securities that had no backing, that still haven’t been resolved and the equity swap data that could also show more fruadelent uses of this shit keeps getting delayed by the ctfc. He’s gonna get house arrest and nice service for his part in helping market makers fleece more people.

    • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I think it looks doubtful at this point.

      His co-conspirators perhaps? However from what I’ve heard he won’t because he didn’t plead guilty and a few other things probably means it’s coming down harder.

      I ain’t no lawyer, but I understand your sentiment. I’m still awaiting Trump to face some sort of consequence.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Sam Bankman-Fried, who once ran one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, has been found guilty of fraud and money laundering at the end of a month-long trial in New York.

    They presented evidence that Bankman-Fried’s crypto trading firm Alameda Research received deposits on behalf of FTX customers from the early days of the exchange, when traditional banks were unwilling to let it open an account.

    Instead of safeguarding those funds, as Bankman-Fried repeatedly pledged to do in public, he spent the money to repay Alameda lenders, buy property and make investments and political donations.

    Bankman-Fried made the risky move of taking the stand in his own defence, hoping to convince jurors that prosecutors had failed to prove he acted with criminal intent.

    Bankman-Fried defended the money transfers between his firms as “permissible” and testified that he was largely unaware of the financial hole described by his deputies until a few weeks before the FTX collapse last year.

    Panorama explores the breakneck rise and sensational fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the maths genius who set out to transform the world of crypto but ended up being its biggest loser.

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