Group Chats, Tweets and Audio Tape: The Evidence Against SBF (1)

Oct. 13, 2023, 10:23 PM UTC

Sam Bankman-Fried’s words in tweets and group chats are being used as evidence against him in his historic fraud trial.

Screenshots of messages, social media posts and internal documents have been presented by prosecutors to demonstrate how the 31-year-old allegedly orchestrated a multibillion-dollar scheme at his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, along with his trading firm Alameda Research. The documents offer a look into the mechanics of his alleged fraud as well as the discrepancies between his public statements and private instructions to his inner circle.

Former colleagues — including Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang — gave jurors insight on how to decipher the documents during their testimony at the federal courthouse in New York.

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