By the age of 30, Sam Bankman-Fried had convinced a million people that he was a safe custodian of their hard-earned cash.
But stood in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, head of curly hair bowed, the one-time master of persuasion failed to win over the person who, in that moment, mattered most: a federal judge who would soon consign him to a quarter-century behind bars.
Once embraced by figures such as former US president Bill Clinton and New York mayor Eric Adams, the FTX founder had “presented himself as the good guy, all in favour of appropriate regulation of the crypto industry”, Judge Lewis Kaplan said. “In my view that was an act.”
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