Judging Sam: The Case Against SBF

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

Business, Society & Culture, Sports

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sam Bankman-Fried's trial starts today in the formidable Southern District of New York, with Judge Lewis A. Kaplan presiding. If convicted, the former multi-billionaire and CEO of crypto exchange FTX could spend the rest of his life behind bars. In this episode, Michael talks with court reporter and producer Lidia Jean Kott and former Southern District of New York prosecutor Rebecca Mermelstein, now a defense attorney with O'Melveny and Myers, about the charges against Sam and what we might expect as the trial gets underway.

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This conversation was recorded on September 26th.

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0:00.0	I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who, over the past several years, has had the good fortune
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0:39.5	Hey there, it's Michael Lewis.
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1:16.2	Welcome to Judging Sam, the trial of Sam Beckman-Free, I'm Michael Lewis.
1:22.7	Sam is the founder of a cryptocurrency exchange called FTX that at one point was worth $40
1:27.6	billion.
1:28.9	Some thought that he'd bring cryptocurrency into the mainstream.
1:32.3	Others thought that he might save the world with his philanthropy.
1:35.6	But instead, his fortune is gone, and he's been charged with financial crimes that could
1:39.8	put him in prison for the rest of his life.
1:42.5	I spent a year and a half reporting on Sam.
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