SoylentNews

Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

Duplicate of this other item in the queue: https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=57790¬e=&title=Feds+Charge+Former+FTX+CEO+Sam+Bankman-Fried+With+Money+Laundering+and+All+Kinds+of+Fraud [soylentnews.org]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/sam-bankman-fried-arrested-in-bahamas-charged-with-massive-crypto-fraud-in-us/ [arstechnica.com]

FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas yesterday and will face charges from the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and one other US government agency. Damian Williams, the Justice Department's US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), announced [twitter.com] that "Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the US Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY."

The SEC announced today [sec.gov] that it charged Bankman-Fried "with orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX Trading" and that investigations into "other securities law violations and into other entities and persons relating to the alleged misconduct are ongoing." The SEC said Bankman-Fried is also facing charges from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a US agency that regulates derivatives markets.

Original Submission