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Bahamian rap: Crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried arrested after request from US authorities
The Register (UK) ^ | Tue 13 Dec 2022 | Simon Sharwood

Posted on 12/13/2022 6:48:15 AM PST by Salman

Bahamian authorities have arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, after he was indicted on criminal charges.

News of Bankman-Fried's cuffing arrived in a tweet from the Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, at around 7:00PM local time on Monday night.

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No information has emerged regarding the charges Bankman-Fried will face, but it appears he will front a US court to defend them.

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(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bitcoin; corruption; crypto; cryptocurrency; ftx; sambankmanfried
I must admit I thought he would get away with it. Glad I was wrong.
1 posted on 12/13/2022 6:48:15 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

the arrest was keep him from testifying to congress

there will be gag orders

sbf did not kill himself


2 posted on 12/13/2022 6:50:28 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Salman

He’s not convicted yet. And now congress can’t question him.


3 posted on 12/13/2022 6:51:09 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Salman

“...but it appears he will front a US court to defend them.”

Say what?


4 posted on 12/13/2022 6:51:42 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Salman

This has a bad smell about it.


5 posted on 12/13/2022 6:55:10 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Salman

Will he still participate in zoom conferences?


6 posted on 12/13/2022 6:55:45 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Salman

Arrested doesn’t mean anything. Interesting that he’s arrested the day before testifying, no?
The idea that this jackass is the only knowing guilty party is comical.


7 posted on 12/13/2022 6:56:24 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Salman

He’s got a D by his name and he’ll get less time in jail than a Jan 6th idiot who took a twenty dollar bottle of booze.

I’m guessing Democrats had him arrested so they could get him back here to get his ‘get out of jail free’ card.


8 posted on 12/13/2022 6:57:48 AM PST by GOPJ (IF OLD twitter management had stood up to Homeland & FBI goons they's be'hurt 7 ways from Sunday'.)
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To: Salman

I’m a bookkeeper’s son
I don’t want to shoot no one
Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don’t take me alive
Got a case of dynamite
I could hold out here all night
Yes I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don’t take me alive


9 posted on 12/13/2022 7:00:15 AM PST by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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To: Salman

Arrested a day before testifying. Now, why would that be? Hmmm...


10 posted on 12/13/2022 7:02:40 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Salman

Fraudco for donations to Marxist dems, pure and simple.


11 posted on 12/13/2022 7:03:35 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: unixfox

Exactly. Dead men tell no tales.


12 posted on 12/13/2022 7:04:00 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: FlyingEagle

If this guy has a black book on politicians and celebrities his days are numbered.


13 posted on 12/13/2022 7:06:06 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Salman

He is not back in the U.S.
I doubt he ever sees U.S. soil alive again.
Arkancide.


14 posted on 12/13/2022 7:21:22 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: Salman

There are persistent rumors that great gobs of his investors’ moolah went into pols’ private crypto accounts — over and above the millions plowed into candidates’ campaigns and PACs. Keeping him from testifying has become a bipartisan issue.


15 posted on 12/13/2022 7:40:12 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: joshua c

Agreed. No one wants him to testify.


16 posted on 12/13/2022 7:55:54 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: for-q-clinton

Exactly. This was to stop the incoming congress from speaking to him. Also they cannot question the FBI or SEC. They will say they cannot component because it’s an ongoing investigation.


17 posted on 12/13/2022 7:57:30 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: joshua c

“there will be gag orders”

Gag orders stop you from talking to the press, but I don’t think they stop you from testifying in another venue.


18 posted on 12/13/2022 8:14:48 AM PST by Boogieman
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