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Sam Bankman-Fried

Disgraced crypto mogul

It took one year for Sam Bankman-Fried to transform from beloved billionaire entrepreneur to convicted felon.

On Nov. 2, a New York jury found Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts he was charged with by the Department of Justice, including defrauding customers and investors of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried, the jurors decided,

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