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Below is a timeline of occasions leading up to the 32-year-old previous billionaire’s sentencing
Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in jail on Thursday over his conviction on scams charges coming from the significant collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he established.
2017
Bankman-Fried, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, stops his task as a quantitative trader at Jane Street Capital and launches Alameda Research, a trading company concentrated on cryptocurrency.
MAY 2019 Bankman-Fried and previous Google staff member Gary Wang discovered FTX as a brand-new platform to trade crypto tokens and derivatives.
OCTOBER 2021 FTX raises $420 million in endeavor financing, valuing the business at $25 billion. Bankman-Fried launchings on the Forbes billionaires list, which approximates his net worth at $22.5 billion. The publication’s evaluation of his wealth would increase to $26 billion by the end of the year.
FEBRUARY 2022
The NFL Super Bowl’s broadcast is heavy on cryptocurrency ads, representing the height of the fad for the growing possession class. FTX’s “Don’t Miss Out” area functions star Larry David, whose uncertainty about the platform is represented as comparable to an early human questioning the significance of the wheel.
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JUNE-JULY 2022 Bankman-Fried becomes the cryptocurrency sector’s so-called “white knight” amidst a collapse in the costs of Bitcoin and other digital properties. Alameda offers crypto lending institution Voyager Digital a $200 million credit center, and FTX offers loan provider BlockFi a $250 million loan.
NOV. 2, 2022 Crypto news site CoinDesk releases a dripped Alameda Research balance sheet revealing that much of its $14.6 billion in properties is kept in FTX’s own token, called FTT. The token consequently sheds around $400 countless its market cap, and competing exchange Binance states it will offer its FTT holdings.
NOV. 11, 2022 FTX declare U.S. insolvency security after a wave of consumer withdrawals, and Bankman-Fried resigns as its ceo.
DEC. 12, 2022 Bankman-Fried is detained in the Bahamas, where he lives and where FTX is based. The U.S. Attorney’s workplace in Manhattan later on verifies that a federal grand jury has actually arraigned him for scams and conspiracy charges.
DEC. 21, 2022 Bankman-Fried leaves the Bahamas after consenting to be extradited to the United States. While he is in the air, district attorneys expose that Wang and Alameda president Caroline Ellison have actually pleaded guilty and consented to comply with district attorneys.
DEC. 22, 2022 Bankman-Fried makes a preliminary look in Manhattan federal court and is launched to home detention at his moms and dads’ home in Palo Alto, California, on $250 million bond.
JAN. 3-12, 2023 Bankman-Fried pleads innocent and U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan schedules his trial for October. In a post-arrest post, Bankman-Fried rejects taking funds and blames FTX’s collapse on a wider recession in crypto markets.
AUG. 11, 2023 Kaplan withdraws Bankman-Fried’s bail after discovering likely cause to think he damaged witnesses a minimum of two times, consisting of by sharing Ellison’s personal works with a New York Times press reporter. Bankman-Fried is remanded to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center pending trial.
OCT. 3, 2023
Trial starts in Manhattan federal court.
OCT. 28, 2023
Bankman-Fried affirms in his own defense, stating a “great deal of individuals got harmed” when FTX collapsed however insisting he did not defraud anybody or take billions of dollars from consumers.
NOV. 2, 2023
Bankman-Fried is founded guilty of all 7 charges he dealt with.
MARCH 28, 2024
Kaplan sentences Bankman-Fried to 25 years in jail.