{"id":1188867,"date":"2023-10-04T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188867"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:42:14","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-lawyer-complains-us-portrays-him-as-cartoon-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188867","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried lawyer complains US portrays him as \u201ccartoon villain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bankman-sketch-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"Courtroom sketch\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bankman-sketch.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"788\" data-width=\"1400\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A courtroom sketch of Sam Bankman-Fried in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/20b1b717-c1f0-486f-a072-0f574424f368\">AP<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sam Bankman-Fried has been painted as a \u201ccartoon villain\u201d by prosecutors whose case depends largely on hindsight, the former crypto tycoon\u2019s lawyers told a Manhattan jury on Wednesday as they laid out their defense at the start of the hotly anticipated criminal trial.<\/p>\n<p>In opening arguments earlier on Wednesday, US prosecutors had accused Bankman-Fried of committing \u201cfraud on a massive scale,\u201d lying to investors, lenders and customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis man stole billions of dollars from thousands of people,\u201d assistant US attorney Thane Rehn told jurors, pointing forcefully at Bankman-Fried, who sat impassively at the defense table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973356#p3\">Read 16 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973356&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Bankman-Fried lawyer complains US portrays him as \u201ccartoon villain\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A courtroom sketch of Sam Bankman-Fried in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday. (credit: AP) Sam Bankman-Fried has been painted as a \u201ccartoon villain\u201d by prosecutors whose case depends largely on hindsight, the former crypto tycoon\u2019s lawyers told a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1188867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}