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- A jury found Sam Bankman-Fried guilty in his fraud trial over the collapse of FTX.
- His fate was sealed by the testimony of his inner circle at his two companies, FTX and Alameda.
- SBF has himself to blame for their cooperation since he made them complicit in the first place.
If you throw your friends under the bus, can you really be surprised if they do the same to you when they get the chance?
That's a question for Sam Bankman-Fried, the former cryptocurrency mogul who claimed ignorance after his crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed a year ago. He tried to blame some of his executives who ended up testifying against him in his federal trial, but his tale quickly became too messy for him to dig himself out.