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Crypto Goes on Trial, as Sam Bankman-Fried Faces His Reckoning

The FTX founder’s uphill court battle starts Tuesday, after he has come to symbolize everything that went wrong with the cryptocurrency industry.

The Lawyers Sam Bankman-Fried Once Trusted Are Drawing Criticism

Mr. Bankman-Fried and his allies have blasted Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York law firm managing FTX’s bankruptcy, for its tangled relationship with the crypto...

Fourth Top FTX Executive to Plead Guilty Ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried Trial

Ryan Salame, a former FTX executive, is set to plead guilty to charges linked to the sweeping fraud case against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of...

Bread, Water and Peanut Butter: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Life in Jail

Mr. Bankman-Fried, founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has protested his conditions at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits trial on fraud charges.

Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Sent to Jail After Judge Revokes Bail

Mr. Bankman-Fried had been under house arrest at his parents’ home as he awaited trial on charges stemming from the collapse of his cryptocurrency company,...

Campaign Finance Charge Against Sam Bankman-Fried Is Dropped

The removal of the campaign finance charge is a victory for Mr. Bankman-Fried’s legal team, which had argued that the United States mishandled the process...

Caroline Ellison Writes About Ex-Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried

Ms. Ellison, a top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s business empire, recorded her thoughts on private Google documents that offer new insight into the collapse of...

Founder of Bankrupt Crypto Firm Celsius Arrested on Fraud Charges

Alex Mashinsky was arrested at his home in New York on Thursday morning. He and his former firm also face lawsuits from the Securities and...

Binance Reaches Deal With Government to Avert U.S. Shutdown

The Securities and Exchange Commission agreed on a compromise with Binance that will keep the exchange open as it battles a fraud lawsuit.

Mountain of FTX Evidence: Emails, Chat Logs, Code and a Notebook

Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.