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Podcast: Sam Bankman-Fried - Biography Flash
Episode: SBF's Hail Mary: Battling for Freedom, Wooing Trump, and Crypto's Wild Ride
Description: Sam Bankman-Fried BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.Sam Bankman-Fried, once hailed as the genius founder behind the meteoric rise of FTX, has made headlines again this week as he battles for his future from inside a federal prison cell. He's now two years into a 25-year sentence after a spectacular fall from crypto grace, convicted on sweeping fraud charges tied to billions in vanished customer assets. The stakes could not be higher: according to SFist, Bankman-Fried is not just appealing his conviction but, through his parents—still big names on the Stanford campus—he’s trying to secure a pard...