Bankman-Fried didn’t believe in rules like “don’t steal,” star witness says

Bankman-Fried didn’t believe in rules like “don’t steal,” star witness says

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/sbfs-dream-of-being-us-president-and-other-weird-anecdotes-from-ftx-trial/

Over three days of testimony in Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial, Caroline Ellison provided revealing glimpses from the years in which she was SBF's on-and-off girlfriend and one of his top executives.

Ellison's testimony described Bankman-Fried's belief that he could become US president, and his belief that his hair "was an important part of FTX's narrative and image." She offered details on a failed attempt to use prostitutes' identities to unlock funds frozen by the Chinese government, and on Bankman-Fried's habit of describing hypothetical coin flips in which everything—even the fate of the whole world—would be put at risk.