Caroline Ellison, former FTX executive, sentenced to 24 months in prison
Ellison, a former top executive for Sam Bankman-Friend's crypto hedge fund, was sentenced Tuesday for fraud.
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Ellison, a former top executive for Sam Bankman-Friend's crypto hedge fund, was sentenced Tuesday for fraud.
Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried claim in an appeal filed Friday that the imprisoned FTX founder was the victim of a rush to judgment by a public that wrongly believed he was guilty before he was even arrested.
Best-selling author Michael Lewis, who had unprecedented access to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, is releasing a new afterword in the paperback version of "Going Infinite." He shares his thoughts on the trial's outcome and the controversy surrounding his portrayal of Bankman-Fried.
FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded.
Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the sudden collapse of the FTX crypto exchange. Prosecutors say he defrauded customers out of more than $8 billion, one of the largest financial crimes in U.S. history. Errol Barnett reports.
A judge sentenced disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison Thursday. A jury convicted the 32-year-old of fraud and conspiracy in November. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett reports.
Former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted for orchestrating a massive financial fraud that led to downfall of crypto trading platform FTX.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the cryptocurrency fraud scheme that brought down his company and lost investors billions. CBS News' Errol Barnett reports.
Sam Bankman-Fried, 32, is scheduled to be sentenced on March 28 following his November conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges.
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer says a recommended sentence of 100 years in prison is "grotesque" and "barbaric."
Prosecutors wrote in a letter that evidence presented at a second trial would duplicate evidence already shown to the jury in the first trial.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's trial came to an end Thursday with the jury finding him guilty on all charges, including fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett was in court as the verdict was read.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty on all seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering following more than two weeks of testimony in one of the highest-profile financial crime cases in years. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett has more.
A Manhattan jury deliberated less than four hours before finding FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors are calling the $10 billion scheme one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. CBS News' Errol Barnett reports.
The former billionaire cryptocurrency mogul faces a potential prison term of more than a century following his conviction.
A jury Thursday night found FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering following more than two weeks of testimony in one of the highest-profile financial crime cases in years. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman and national correspondent Errol Barnett have more.
Closing arguments were underway Wednesday in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's trial in New York. CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett has been covering the trial and has the latest on Bankman-Fried's testimony.
Jury deliberations are set to begin in the New York trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. The jury will have to consider if Bankman-Fried's statements on the stand contradict evidence presented by the prosecution. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett has the latest as attention turns to the jury.
Sam Bankman-Fried was back on the witness stand at his trial Tuesday as prosecutors argued he moved to protect his assets while FTX, his cryptocurrency exchange company, tumbled. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett reports on Bankman-Fried's testimony.
Sam Bankman-Fried will take the stand Thursday as he defends himself in a trial against seven charges. A number of Bankman-Fried's colleagues have testified against him in cooperation with prosecutors. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett has a preview of Bankman-Fried's defense.
Sam Bankman-Fried's ex-girlfriend is back on the witness stand facing cross-examination from the disgraced FTX founder's lawyers. Caroline Ellison has repeatedly told jurors Bankman-Fried was the mastermind behind the crimes that led to the company's downfall. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett has the latest.
It was a rough day in court for Sam Bankman-Fried's defense, with Judge Lewis Kaplan pressing the FTX co-founder's lawyer on his line of questioning.
Caroline Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried's ex-girlfriend, is back on the witness stand Wednesday in the FTX founder's fraud trial. Ellison previously pleaded guilty to multiple charges and agreed to cooperate with the prosecution. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett is at the courthouse and has the latest on Ellison's testimony.
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The FCC announced Thursday that it had approved the $6.2 billion merger of major broadcast station owners Nexstar and Tegna.
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The Justice Department says it has shuttered four websites that were allegedly used by Iranian government-linked groups to post hacked information and threaten regime critics.
The vote by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members are supporters of the president and were appointed by him earlier this year, was without objection.
The FCC announced Thursday that it had approved the $6.2 billion merger of major broadcast station owners Nexstar and Tegna.
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Val Kilmer was originally set to star in "As Deep as the Grave" before he died last year, never shooting a scene of the movie. But Kilmer will still star in the film thanks to generative AI, which is artificial intelligence that can generate new content by analyzing existing content. Jo Ling Kent has more.
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