These Are the Potential Witnesses in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Fraud Trial

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By stacy-marie ishmael, Hannah Miller, and Olga Kharif

October 5, 2023 at 2:32 PM UTC

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Sam Bankman-Fried, on trial for multiple counts of fraud related to the collapse of his FTX crypto exchange, has denied all the allegations against him. Now, it will be up to the jury to decide whether he acted “in good faith,” as his lawyers maintain, or “lied to the world” as the prosecution argued in their opening statements.

A key part of the trial, which is scheduled to last for six weeks, will be the testimony from witnesses summoned by both his lawyers and by US prosecutors.