Sam Bankman-Fried Should Shut Up, Bernie Madoff’s Lawyer Says

The lawyer who represented Bernie Madoff has this advice for Sam Bankman-Fried: shut up.

Enough with this whole media apology tour, says Ira Sorkin, lead defense lawyer for Madoff, late mastermind of one of the greatest Ponzi schemes of all time.

Ira Sorkin

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As authorities sift through the wreckage of FTX, Bankman-Fried’s collapsed crypto empire, the man known as SBF, has been talking to everyone from The New York Times to the ABC talk show Good Morning America.

Again and again, he’s denied intentionally commingling client money or trying to swindle anyone. Federal authorities are investigating exactly that. Neither FTX, ...