The Humiliating Cross-Examination of SBF

A courtroom sketch of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in Manhattan federal court. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
“Did you say in private, ‘Fuck regulators?’”
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The first audience members started arriving around 10 p.m. on Sunday night, even though the event wouldn’t begin for another eleven and a half hours.
The people in line weren’t waiting for Taylor Swift tickets, or some new Apple device, but for a coveted seat in U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s courtroom in lower Manhattan, where alleged fraudster Sam …

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